Yichun

Short Post

2010-05-19T11:40:00.000+08:00

Lied in bed and was reluctant to wake up as a form of escapism from the anxiety of tml's scholarship selection activity. I'm losing concentration in life, happiness and appetite. I feel like I'm wasting my life seeking goals that seem hollow. As much as I tried not to think about it, I can't. Truth is I have extreme phobia of such selection processes. I need some source of guidance and motivation which never came. Despite so many encouragements from friends and family members, I am still over with it and the same old thoughts flooded my naive mind whenever I am invited for an interview or test or activity. I feel frustrated and clueless with myself.

And so I’m back to blogging.

2010-04-11T01:20:00.001+08:00

It has been quite a while since I last blogged. In fact, I cannot even remember when was the last time I actually blogged. I have this sudden impulse to jot down my thoughts because of some recent events that set me into a sort of conundrum. I am confused as to who I should be. I have intended to spend this time doing up the captions and tagging for the photo albums that I have uploaded onto Facebook of photos taken at my birthday party but now I have no mood to do so.

Last month, I applied for the MPA Scholarship and as usual I was invited for a preliminary round of interviews. This interview required more preparation than usual because there was a presentation section as well. I prepared quite a bit of them as I was determined that I can pass a scholarship interview for once. My previous experience with the Imperial College professor helped to regain the confidence I need that I can actually speak during an interview. So I went for it, very nervous as usual. But I felt that I have managed to compose myself relatively well as and answered the typical questions with the best of my ability. All my preparations for those questions, interviewing tactics that I self-learnt from E-PREP course and library books should have helped me. I was feeling good about it, until I didn't receive any call from MPA by last Tuesday night for a final round of interview, which automatically meant that I have received a "silent rejection". My fourteenth failed interview? I have got rejected so many times I have lost count of it. Frankly, I always envy peers, friends and school-mates who got offers from scholarship boards and are spoilt for choice. I felt useless and worry that I will remain jobless for life, for I will not able to pass any interviews.

Perhaps it is my personality. Perhaps it is my small stature which makes it difficult to present myself as one with great capability and potential. Perhaps it is my typical "crazy" character that stultifies my intellectual and leadership capabilities that scholarship boards and employers are looking out for. I seriously do not know. I just know that it will be very uncomfortable for me to change into someone who is innately not myself just to impress. But pragmatism has its place. Even Singapore has decided to allow casinos on its land despite the possible negative repercussions on shaping people's morals. Come what may. I think that I have used that three words to loosely and would need to stop by now. I am undecided when it comes to aspirations and even what I am reading in university is merely based on popularity. I knew that I'll do better in science and hence I have decided to take up Chemical Engineering because of its seemingly better prospects. In addition, not to mention that double degree programme that I have applied for to read Chemical Engineering together with Business Administration because of my childish opinion of "having more is good". But seems like I will be the master of none. And I will be jobless. Friends around me are studying in NIE, reading law or medicine and have a general direction in their life. For me, I am just aimless.

Should I change to impress? I am unsure as it will be a torturous thing to do at least for myself.

Enough of ranting. I should be embarrassed enough for the whole huge chunk of bad English above. I just need to voice out when I want to within myself and this is it.

It's a Love Story, Baby just Say Yes.

2009-08-30T00:28:00.001+08:00

Recently, I have started to re-listen to this song by Taylor Swift after not listening to it for some time. I heard from 98.7FM that Taylor Swift wrote this song within 20 minutes and it has become one of her greatest hit. That sets me thinking. Why is it that some people can take such “short-cuts” in life and achieve great things. Is it talent? Aptitude?

I need to reflect and think of my own expectations in life and everything else; for me myself is my worst enermy. I have never and still cannot accept failure graciously.

Flavour Fatigue

2009-06-20T23:33:00.002+08:00

This morning I went for my piano lesson as usual with my stomach three-quarter empty. All the last minute practicing and wastage of time online has only given me sufficient time for a bowl of cereal with milk. As a result, the lesson went downhill. I was so hungry that I could not concentrate on reading the notes and listen to what my teacher has to say. Grade 8 requires a lot of patience and practice. I know I am not and will never be a good pianist but I hope I can cross this last hurdle and “graduate” from piano.

After that I bought something light to eat and rushed off to town to meet Joel to do some shopping. There are so many things that I want to buy recently and those are “Doodads” according to a game I played with my cousins at a chalet recently. The game is call “Cashflow” and I thought I have gained much valuable lessons on managing my own personal finances with it. In fact, it actually inspires me to make some investments in shares or antiques but that is really a far-fetched idea owing to the lack of capital.

Sorry I was digressing.

We went into Birkenstock because I wanted to exchange the pair I bought last Thursday to one that is a size larger. Birkenstock is rumoured to be the place with one of the worst service in Singapore. I knew about it after I googled it online after my infuriating experience at the shop last Thursday.

I was trying out the pair of sandals that I was intending to buy and I realized that I could not really get use to the contours of the sole. Hence, I jokingly made a remarks that I felt as though there were pebbles under my feet. For some unknown reason, the Boss of Birkenstock Singapore sounds really offended and sniggered

“What pebbles? There are no pebbles. It was probably you. You are flat-footed or you feet are deformed. Those are the only possibilities.”

I was taken aback because her remarks are like insults that were hurled at me and I was merely making a passing remark with no ill intentions. Any idiot would know that there aren’t pebbles stuck to the sole.

“Flavour Fatigue” was a term used by the ever linguistic Joel while we were finishing a Grande bowl of soup at The Soup Spoon at Paragon today. The volume was intimidating and we got tired of drinking the same thing after awhile. It tasted like water. Good things must really come in small quantities.

Rain. Rain, Go Away!

2009-05-30T10:04:00.000+08:00

Just when I thought of going for a short swimming and sun-tanning session later after my piano lesson, the sky turned omnious like a dark veil suddenly blocking out the precious sunlight. Sigh, why does it have to rain every Saturday afternoon on my planned swim day!

I have decided to “revive” this blog after a long hiatus just to practice typing or “writing” in prose after a long break of not doing so. Instead, I am proud that I have been engaged in noble things that are contributing to the defence of my country.

I was having a rather boring Friday night yesterday. Strangely, I feel weird to be at home on a Friday night without hanging out with friends. I went out to Lot One alone in an attempt to have my dinner but was greeted with swarms of crowd. I have never seen Lot One that crowded before. All possible dining venues were packed with queue lines waiting anxiously for seats. That was when I realised that Taiwan pop sensation Jolin Tsai was there for an autograph session. The venue of the autograph session was perched on the roof-top garden of Lot One shopping mall and was never conspicuous in sight unlike the normal sessions that would take place at the ground level of the shopping mall. I have never been to the newly expanded roof-top garden of Lot One shopping mall and have no idea how to get my way up there. How I learned about the superstar’s presence was via two plasma TVs hanging above the central complex like how Mao’s picture was famously plastered on the walls facing Tiananmen Sqaure in Beijing. People stood along the railings at the second level to look at the pathetic plasma TVs. Some were ridiculously filming down what was being telecasted “live” on the TV sets. Never a fan of Chinese pop, I walked out of the mall to beat the crowd. That added disappointment to my already boring Friday night.
I would be going to my piano teacher’s house for a short performance later in the evening. Hopefully it would not be a disaster for I lacked discipline to practise every day. What a paradox; I am worried that I would never pass my Grade 8 piano practical examinations but yet I do not have the self motivation and discipline to practise hard for it.

Possibly meeting up with a few of my BMT mates or my cousin (which ever materialised eventually) to catch Angels & Demons tomorrow. I have wanted to watch the movie after having read the book ever since it opened in the cinemas but could not find any company. I do not enjoy wathcing movie all alone with no one to discuss the plot with in times when I need clarifications owing to my dismal comprehension ability. Ok, now I know why I could not find anyone soon to watch a movie with. I’m such a pain in the neck.

Cheers!

20!

2009-04-05T00:45:00.002+08:00

Just turned 20 yesterday. sigh the thought of not being a "teen"ager anymore shudders me! i cannot believe it myself.

anyway i realised that this blog has somehow become increasingly filled with whinning and depressing posts. sorry about that, i just treat it as an outlet to express my feelings at those particular moments. hopefully less of those posts from today onwards!

thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday, for all the meet-ups meals and little presents. now i finally understand that these things meant quite a lot. i feel loved and that there are many people around who cared for me and for tolerating me for who i am. thanks to one and all again! =)

can't smile

2009-04-04T12:17:00.004+08:00

i just turned 20 today but at this current moment i just cannot bring myself to smile. in fact i am shamelessly weeping as i type this.

driving lesson early in the morning killed the mood.

failed driving test twice; failed scholarship interviews 10 times and have not done anything productive at all this year.

not to mention the stall i wanted to eat for lunch was closed.

everything just seems to be not going the right way for me.

Can't Read My Poker Face

2009-03-30T19:11:00.003+08:00

recently, my uncle is hooked on Texas Holdem Poker on Facebook. i have no idea how to play Poker. Anyone bother to teach?

Last Friday, I went for my 8th Scholarship Interview in my life and as usual i failed. even though the HR manager said "we would keep you updated next week (which is this week)". this is because i saw the guy in smart 4 in front of me got a letter. i secretly peeped at the letter form the corner of my eye and saw that it was an invitation to the second round. oh well sigh.

Today and tomorrow will be interesting (well not exactly interesting but just some abnormalities to my normal routine of reporting to mindef). i reported to air force school to help in the prepartion of some event (don't know if i am allowed to say what it is here so yup) aka doing saikung.

reporting to work slightly later tomorrow! woohoo! thanks to my rich colleague zheng geng who drives i can hitch a ride to air force school again. probably meeting him in the morning to have choa chu kang lasi lemak first before heading down to air force school. haha. to satisfy my and his craving for lasi lemaks.

April's coming soon! 2009 is passing so fast!

gadgets that should have been invented but hasn't (and i wonder why?)

2009-03-01T23:28:00.002+08:00

The title says it all. I am going to list down two things that come to my mind now; there are probably more just that they are not apparent enough for me to blog now.

1) Digital camera with blue-toothing or any instant picture sharing capability

I believe most of you have been in this situation when taking group photographs where each individual wants their own camera to have the picture taken. This ends up with the poor photographer (most probably stranger) having to juggle around with the many cameras in his/her hand and the people posing for the picture to be taken getting impatient. I know picture sharing is easy online but nothing beats having the picture in your own camera in high resolutino without the hassle of troubling others to email/send you the picture in its original glory.

2) Water-proof MP3 player

We have got water-proof digital cameras (Olympus) and water-proof laptops; why can’t we have water-proof MP3 players too? This would be good for people who likes to do water sports as they can listen to their favourite music simultaneously.

On a side note, I went to Mind's Cafe again. I love the game "Citadels".

Yawns. Monday; a brand new week awaits...

2009-02-26T00:07:00.000+08:00

I look down on myself for being who I am.

humbled and tormented

2009-02-25T17:09:00.003+08:00

ever since A levels, i have failed all my scholarship interviews, got an abysmal score of 1920 for my SAT, failed driving test twice with disgraceful accumulations of 48 points and 32 points respectively (just failed with 32 point). i cannot forgive myself for all these failures and mistakes. i have always wanted myself to excel in everything i do, if not i would rather not do it at all. all these things have made me reflect but at the same time i could not forgive myself for having failed in so many things. it is like an obstruction in my life. i know there is always a second chance but the very fact that i just could not live pass the fact that i have not excel and succeeded in my first try. having said that, i'm not giving up. i'm planning to re-take SAT, have signed up for my third driving test and try for other scholarships. physically i'm giving myself second chances but deep inside i still cannot forget and forgive myself for my failures. i'm at cross-roads now. i feel extremely disappointed with myself. any kind soul there who knows how to cope with these kind of situation? i need help and i think i need to see a psychiatrist. i feel like a scum on the Earth for i'm just a failure...

i could not find motivation and drive for myself and look ahead towards my future.

sigh. i'm nothing but a total failure. one that is maybe better theoretically but absolutely not practically. i'm at a lost. i'm destined to be a failure in life.

Bethena

2009-02-24T00:30:00.003+08:00

hello! i'm back!

spent the whole of last saturday shifting the computer to my room from the study room and manually linking the internet connection. my dad refused to go wireless as he claims that the signal always break. thanks to his help the computer is up and running in my room! so now i cam literally jump on my bed when i want to sleep from too much internet surfing and online chatting.

was finding this song which i heard at the end of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and i realised that it is from "Bethena" by Scott Joplin. I like his rags and of course this beautiful piece! Hopefully i would have the time and patience to learn this piece. Still finding the sheet music though.

Here's the ending to the epic-length movie which i thought cleverly summed it up giving me a lasting impression of the whole movie. of course the music definitely adds an excellent touch to the overall melacholy mood.

last day of 2008

2008-12-31T15:39:00.002+08:00

hello guys wonder who still read this pseudo abandoned blog but i suddenly had this urge to jot down one entry on the last day of 2008.

in retrospect, 2008 has not been a really good year for you. being enlisted does not really help to improve things but that was not the main concern. i feel like i have wasted one year of my life away doing nothing. don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining about NS. In fact, i'm really glad to be where i'm posted to now. "NS is a waste of time" that was the common refrain. contrary i felt that this year has given me the opportunity to take a break from the world of academia and indulge in other things that really matters. i learnt a lot more about myself and my character at my workplace.

today is the last day of 2008 and i'm still the same old person always expecting myself to excel and perfect in everything that i do. one small mistake and i would dive into self reproach and wallow in self pity. i am my worst enermy. for o levels, i blamed myself for not studying hard enough to get 10 A1s. i'm innately competitive; soemthing which i disgust myself with sometimes. i'm always holding the "if others can do it. why can't i?" attitude. so i aimed to obtain perfect scores for A levels. this time not that i didn't get what i want but i still failed in terms of what i can do with my supposedly excellent grades. they are nothing but a few pathetic alphabets on a piece of paper. totally not representative of anything great. next, i applied for scholarships just because others are doing it. i wasn't sure what i wanted and i am close to hopeless when it comes to "thinking maturely" "speaking confidently" attributes of excelling in interviews. hence, needless to say, i wasn't offered any scholarships. i admit that i really envied others when i heard good news from that they got this and that scholarship. looking back at myself, i feel like a failure. thereafter comes piano examination. i concur that i haven't been practising hard nor possess the relevant soft skills required to be a good pianist. however when i saw how good my cousins were again i started blaming myself for not practising hard enough and wasting my time. why is it that they can play so well while i can't? to end of in a more depressing note, yesterday i took my driving test and undoubtly i failed. and the number of demerit points i scored was so much that it's equivalent to me crashing the car and meetin gwith an accident during the test. i heard of so many friends passing on the first time. again i felt very depressed, demoralised and engaged in a series of self reproachment for me being a failure. in almost all cases, thanks to friends who are kind enough to listen to my almost unnecessary whinnings and comforting which made me feel better. however the eventual person who can really help me is nobody but myself.

failure. hopefully i would learn to cope and live with it in year 2009.

cheers to a new year!

the customer is always right

2008-12-06T00:29:00.002+08:00

this is probably one of the few times i pushed so much for something and that is my CPL promotion. i was told by CPC that i need to pass my IPPT before i could be promoted to CPL. however, checks with directive and army fitness centre showed that there is no need for me to take ippt as long as i was excused for 6 months or more within my work year, which i have. i called some chief clerk at CPC this morning and she ostensibly insisted that i need to take ippt. my colleague told me that i had quite a vehement argument with her and i sounded like i was about to cry. LOL. in the end i told my office who was kind enough to stop her work to help me draft a email to CPC to clarify on the justification for my promotion delay. i mean what's the use of directives if everyone do different things and don't follow?

rushing driving lessons nowadays. i have seriously spent quite a lot of money on driving having been a slow learner and taking so many lessons. hopefully i would be able to pass on my first try. =/

ok i don't know when would be the next tiem i'm blogging again...

cheena china

2008-11-13T18:53:00.002+08:00

going to Beijing in a few hours time =); my father is ridiculously rushing as usual. think i would take a short nap first before checking my luggage one last time.

back on 22 Nov!

relative poverty

2008-10-25T23:16:00.004+08:00

i may be fortunate enough to have a family who can support basic materialistic comforts but being the ever unsatisfied human being, but sometimes i do despair at my state of "poverty" especially when compared to people around me. "compare" is the root of all evil. however, it is inevitable.

in a bid to save money, the toilet's shower head has not been changed since ten years ago. despite incessant complains from me that the connection pipe kept dropping and efforts by me to source for cheaper alternatives and printing out a brochure from my workplace which has a special discount for heater. the offer ends by this month anyway.

the tremendous delay taken to order the "Time" magazine for my reading pleasures and an attempt to rescue my already weak linguistic ability. lack of credit card and cheques pose a challenge to the payment process, not to mention i have to source for the cheapest package possible. "if you buy it, make sure you read it" (in chinese) kept ringing in my head. i'm not the disciplined type that would read. in actual fact i think i would have spent the reading time chatting on msn messenger and checking out facebook. god seems to play a fool on me. a month after i signed up for a one year subscription, i received a email regarding a promotion package that offers a 67% discount for a one-year subscription of time and fortune combo.

refusal to buy newspapers to read at home because the prices of newspapers are too steep.

although this may not be the perfect example, but i think it indirectly shows some possible reason for the a phenomenom mentioned in the papers of how more than half of this year's PSC scholars live in private housing. only families that have the financial capability and education would buy subscribe time magazine and newspapers to read at home. sure, libraries provide them for free, but certainly it would be more accessible and one would encouraged to read more if these are readily available at home. and definitely trained them to be more mature and eloquent; what people look for in scholars.

ok i'm certainly not in the right state of mind while typing this and as usual my train of thought is hay-wired and my ability to express myself in words is just abysmal.

sigh.

test

2008-10-21T21:50:00.002+08:00

i have been going home on time for this week so far, which is a good sign. however, whenever i prepare to leave the office one part of me strangely is pulling me back to complete more work. i feel the obligation to do more but practically i'm not sure whether it is worth it. well at least i'm proud of my work and can confidently say that i have put in my best to do things that are assigned to me.

thanks to kee hong who sourced out the directive regarding nsf promotion, we found out that actually it is not comulsory for me to take ippt before i'm eligible for promotion to cpl after all. nevertheless, i'm still taking ippt tomorrow since i have alreeady signed up for it. i'm almost certain i would not pass; the last time i ever passed napfa was...never. sigh.

going off to practice piano now. taking examinations end of this year, wish me luck!

the financial crisis

2008-10-12T12:08:00.003+08:00

just feel like updated this sad ranting ground. the recent financial crisis made me feel glad that i have taken economics in JC. at least i understood what is written in the papers with all the economics jargon incorporated.

on the other hand, is there a difference between jogging alone or with someone. used to jog with angie during the weekends and i wouldn't feel tired albeit singing/dancing/laughing/shouting/joking; all activities which consumed energy on top of that dispensed for jogging. now i feel shagged after jogging a relatively shorter distance. how am i supposed to pass IPPT and get my CPL rank? maybe i'm destined to be a PTE, the only problem being that a PTE's pay is a delta decrease of that of a CPL's.

life's unpredictable. just got to know that an old friend of mine going to go for a huge operation this coming december that involves some risks. hope that she can tide over the ordeal :).

looking forward to a OT-free (hopefully) week ahead.

nothing

2008-10-04T15:33:00.001+08:00

9 months of 2008 has passed... and I have achieved nothing worth remembering.

spiralling

2008-10-01T09:34:00.002+08:00

hello! public holiday today so i am free to update this almost-dead blog. been busy attending piano and driving lessons, giving tuition and only left with weekday nights which i spend doing... rubbish lol.

currently i'm groovin' to this song by keane call "spiralling". the beat is so infectious that when i played it on my MP3 this morning it got me jumping out of my bed to dance! haha.

nothing much exciting happened except work has been rather smooth sailing. hopefully i woudl be able to tide through the intimidating ranking boards.

oh i haven't write the UCAS personla statement yet! the power of procrastination! anyway, i'm still rather unsure about my future. sigh probably i would study something random (like chem eng and business double) and do something random in the future too (which i have no idea what). haha.

meeting up with some JC classmates later. been a long time since we last catch up.

haha aaron welcome to mindef!

that green gentlemen

2008-09-14T00:46:00.002+08:00

hello back again. end of a rather hectic week. been reaching home at 9pm on average everyday. did departmental duty on wednesday and friday. stayed back OT on tuesday. watched wall-e with zhen hong on thursday. driving on monday.

argh the lack of time. there are so many things to do but there is jut not enough time for so many. if only humans need not sleep...

i'm not moving

2008-09-06T14:10:00.003+08:00

seems like it has become a usual practice for me to begin my blog entry with a song or a video from youtube.

this song's my favourite at the moment! listen to the lyrics, they are so romantic :)

Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag. I'm not gonna move,
Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand,
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am,
Some try to hand me money they don't understand,
I'm not... broke I'm just a broken hearted man,
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do,
How can I move on when I've been in love with you...

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.

Policeman says son you can't stay here,
I said there's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year,
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows,
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go.

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.

I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.

People talk about the guy
Whos waiting on a girl...
Oohoohwoo
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world...
Hmmmm

Maybe I'll get famous as man who can't be moved,
And maybe you won't mean to but you'll see me on the news,
And you'll come running to the corner...
Cos you'll know it's just for you

I'm the man who can't be moved
I'm the man who can't be moved...

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.
[Repeat in background]

So I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.

I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.

Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag not I'm not gonna move.

past week has been really hectic with me doing department duty for two days and staying back to rush the 2009 Ranking Database for OPC. updating and consolidating information from 2000 officers is no mean feat. i was dead beat and thanks so much to my officer who sent me home at 9.00pm yesterday with goodwood park hotel mooncakes. apparently these snowskin mooncakes spoils very easily and need to be kept in the freezer compartment as they do not contain any preservatives. they gave us a cool pack (those that are used to keep chilled can drinks cold) just to carry the mooncakes. well, i guessed that's what $40 is for...

hwachong's annual mid autumn festival more affectionately known as MAF is going on tonight. kind of looking forward to the mass dances and song sessions.

other than that i'm gonna spend this afternoon bumming around sleeping and reading. conincidentally as the song suggests i'm really not moving in terms of things i'm supposed to do:

1. UCAS applications
2. Cambridge application
3. Practice for piano examination
4. Pack my room
...

which i gave up listing.

oh yea

5. watch wall-e.

pang pang pang ping pang!

2008-09-04T22:05:00.001+08:00

saw this on aaron's blog just now and thought it is pretty interesting and funny! so i decided to share it here too.

came back from work an hour ago and still clad in my no. 3 uniform. i think i better change out of ti and bath soon. wearing it and blogging makes me feel like i'm at work. speaking of work, it is really piling up. with so many databases to maintain and a large population of about 2000 airforce officers to handle, it is esy to see why there would be a lot of work, especially since ranking period has officially started. just did department duty yesterday as i swopped with another clerk and i'm doing it again tomorrow! i think i can virtually forget about my cambridge and UCAS applications. in addition, piano grade 7 practical examinations is end of this year, with such a lack of practice i am keeping my fingers crossed that i would be able to pass it.

went for nike human race 10K run last sunday and watched a concert by boys like girls after that. thoroughly enjoyed myself!

ok another random post. i need to get a life soon!

of table tennis and CDF

2008-08-15T20:57:00.002+08:00

feels weird updating my blog again after such a long hiatus. first and foremost, congratulations to the singapore table tennis team for clinching at least the silver medal! was listening to the live telecast via radio today and i was feeling very nervous for the team when it comes down to the final deciding match. i was staring at the computer at my work desk but totally not concentrating on work at all. i bet everyone in the office were listening intently to the radio for the commentary and it was rather funny. that's why they say visual is more exciting than verbal. ok crap i am digressing.

olympics aside, today CDF visit our little "hideout" aka storeroom aka office aka ranking and promotion section at Mindef HQ RSAF. i stood up immediately as a mark of respect and look up to see three stars shining brightly at me. anyway i realised that the stars on the shoulder board are made of real gold threads! went down to gombak base QM to collect them for promotion ceremony last month and was shock to see the stars "shining" in the scanner screen as it passes through the MP security scanner. even the MP was amazed and showed his counterpart haha. anyway shoke Minister Teo's hand during national day when he made his walk-about and was trying to shake CDF's hand but unfortunately he just popped in for awhile. luckily i wasn't singing at that moment! HAHA.

talking about singing i was nominated by my branch to take part in AMD's karaoke competition for their happy hour. i feel dead because seriously enjoy singing doesn't equate to singing well.... lol. i guessed i would just embarrase myself, not that it is the first time. =P

gonna bath now...till the next time then!

pangs of disappointment

2008-07-13T22:27:00.003+08:00

"yichun why don't you apply overseas to study with your results you should!!!"

but my family couldn't afford it without a scholarship.

I suddenly feel pangs of disappointment while viewing pictures of my fellow peers receiving scholarships for their future studies. sigh. while mine... seems so uncertain. probably next year would be better. but i just cannot perform during interviews. argh i am a hazard to myself. seriously my demeanor, the way i speak, my stature, my style of life... are all not totally scholistic "material". leadership? not that i display a lot but education keeps teaching us how to be a "leader". did not join a lot of activities in school back then and reflecting back... i was too embarrassed to be a leader. me and "leader" juxtaposed incompatibility. i have my own ideas, my own thoughts on how things should be done... but never a leader.

ok this sounds too depressing to be continued. night.

iamsoboredsoiupdatemyblog

2008-07-05T20:33:00.003+08:00

hello been a while since i update this blog that seems to tarnish in the blogosphere.

first time being the duty clerk yesterday. wasn't very smooth sailing i guess with me pissing the MP off in the morning because i signed on the key registry book wrongly THRICE. in addition, i went to mindef a bit tad early so the newspapers wasn't ready for collection. i entered the building and five minutes later the newspaper delivery man arrived so basically i entered the gantry and walked to the other entrance exited the gantry to collect keys enter the gantry from that entrance and exit from the other entrance to collect newspaper and enter the gantry from that entrance again. okay sounds complicated right LOL. the next hurdle was finding the light switch in AMD. spent like 5 minutes groping in the darkness for the light switch which turned out to be illogically deep inside the corridor (which means that one had to walk in the darkness anyway before he or she can turn on the lights) before calling dear andrea for help. wow the things i do amaze me sometimes on hindsight.

mr lim asked me to help him to write appraisals for some DSTA personnel to appeal for their promotion. qutie hilarious because i am making up stories for strangers and worrying because i realised my english has gone from bad to worst.

ok i seriously need to restructure the way i spend my time... and get a life! lol.

i feel so aimless like a reckless driver who doesn't know where to go. ok maybe not a reckless driver cause i put in my best in whatever comes my way... but i truly have no ultimate goal in life. until now i am still unsure of what course to take and what career path to choose sigh. the fact that all my scholarship applications went down the drain owing to my lack of confidence and interviewing skills doesn't help.

time waits for no one

2008-06-21T19:50:00.002+08:00

remember the previous entry in which i indicated the movies that i were intending to watch? well i haven't watched them yet and i think both movies have stopped screening in the cinemas. haven't been watching movie or going out with friends for quite a long time, making me feel friendless lol.

talking about friends, how many of your have a best friend? i couldn't really think of one at the moment but i have a bunch of close friends that no doubt care about me and who i can talk with ease with and i feel fortunate for that.

sorry this entry gets a bit random. haven't been blogging for quite some time now and didn't know exactly how to patch the bits and pieces into a coherent blog entry.

work wise has been great. i am slowly adapting and enjoying the new work style and habit under my new superiors. finally i am using some brains at work when my immediate boss had to fill up this form indicating the project tasked to me for i am serving ns as a project clerk. one of them requires me to modify a ranking programme (i am in air manpower department (AMD), which is like the airforce HR department, under the ranking and promotion section for officers in the airforce). this would require me to understand how to use microsoft access (which i know nuts about it before i came to AMD) as well as simple programming language. simple as it seems it is not simple for me as i had zero computer knowledge background. the only think i know is how to manipulate codes by copying from others to make my blog layout. haha.

i feel like going to somewhere with some friends now for a meal or to watch movie. but seems like it is too late to plan something like that now... haha.

till the next time then.

the square root of three

2008-05-11T23:28:00.002+08:00

Today’s Mother’s Day. I did not hold an extravagant celebration for my mother nor did I cook a meal for her partially due to my laziness and her constant worry of the kitchen getting messed up. In the end, I bought a pair Papillio sandals for my mom as a gift. Hope she would like it.

I think I just did something unbelievably crazy. I signed myself up with almost ten tuition agencies online in a bid to get assignments for Mathematics and Sciences. I have decided to try to get for myself two more students to earn more pocket money and also to keep my brain from degenerating. So any lobang can contact me thanks! On a side note, I am learning to use Excel almost from scratch at work with a slef-help book aka Excel Bible haha. Really hope that I would be able to create the program that my officer wants soon.

Caught the movie “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” a few weeks back with my ex classmates at Vivocity. The movie wasn’t really fantastic but there is this scene that the main actor recited this poem which I thought was pretty good. I finally found the poem and decided to share it with everyone here. Enjoy!

The Square Root of 3
by Dave Feinberg

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

Digressing these are two movies that I have yet to catch but would like to do so! So any friends who are thinking of catching these two films please contact me so I would not be so lonely :P. haha.

Have a great week ahead! Vesak Day long weekend is here soon...

revival!

2008-05-04T13:06:00.002+08:00

Qing Sheng just reminded me that I have a blog on MSN Messenger just now. Hence, I decided to blog a short post to update on my life now. Currently, I am serving NS as a promotions clerk at RSAF HQ, Air Manpower Deparment (AMD). It is situated at MINDEF where all the high-flyers are. I literally see stars and crabs everywhere I go. Life has been pretty good there and I learnt some new skills by myself such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access, office politics and Situation Awareness (SA). Haha.

On to the topic of my university and scholarship applications, I am sad to say I think that I have been officially rejected from all my scholarship applications! I would probably try again next year or settled studying local at NTU (aerospace engineering course) or NUS (chemical engineering course). Friends and relatives have been pressing me to try for medicine, which I did by stupidly putting it as my second choice and got ignored altogether LOL. My senior gave me this analogy about how I can view my A level results as arcade coupons that one can exchange for a gift. Imagine one have 100 coupons he questioned why would one exchange only 20 coupons for a gift and throw away the rest. However, after much thought, I feel that I would rather exchange 20 coupons for something that I feel that I truly like then to use up all 100 for something that is more branded and expensive but not something that I yearn for. I feel like I am at crossroads now. Admittedly, I have not really decided on what my future career path would be yet. However, one thing is for sure, I would like to take up science related courses in university.

I shall end this post by posting a video of my current favourite song here for the very few readers of this dilapidated blog. It is James Blunt again with his sappy voice and emotional take on “Carry You Home”. It is his third single for the album “All The Lost Souls”. Hopefully, this song would be released as a new song next week on 987FM so I can call in to dedicate it on radio! :P

Following up is the youtube user turned star Marie Digby with the first single from her debut album “Torn”. It is a simple yet sweet song titled “Say It Again”.

James Blunt - Carry You Home

Marie Digby - Say It Again

Have a great week ahead everyone! :)

outdated post

2008-03-19T10:11:00.006+08:00

uploaded the pictures but i was too busy with scholarship applications, facebook, chatting online, university applications and going out so i saved this post as a draft and started blogging only now. last week, i went to my all time favourtie senior arthur's commissioning parade. just by attending the parade i can actually feel the amount of hard work that he had put in to become an officer and of course respect him for i know i would most probably never be able to achieve that. no wonder he is my all time favourtie senior!

met my senior chen nee who i used to play the angle and mortal game with back in hwachong (it is a hwachong tradition to play this game between the senior and junior class). i still keep all the letters with her nice handwriting on them and of course still using the pencil case that she gave me on valentine's day! haha

and this is arthur, looking stern and smart!

next up is a short post about the wonderful colbie caillat showcase that i got to attend, thanks to 987 FM! won the tickets on the "muttons to midnight" show which i am supposed to sing a colbie caillat song. i tried to sing "bubbly" but screwed it up really badly and forgot the lyrics as i was too nervous. in the end, the whoel phone conversation sounded really hilarious and they picked it to play in front of colbie caillat to explain to her how we the radio listeners won the tickets to her showcase. it was quite embarrassing man... i think michelle turned red cause everyone was starring at our corner (we were sitting right in front like one metre away from colbie caillat). nevertheless, we had a fun night listening to her music at the timbre @ the arts house. she can sing live really well!

me with the tallest radio dj shan wee!

and desiree lai from the lunch time show!

muttons!

with a guy from colbie caillat's band. he came up to talk to me thanks to the mega embarrassing radio snippet haha.

didn't get to take a picture with colbie caillat herself though, becuase i didn't win the backstage passes to meet and greet her. however, it was a evening well spent with great music to enjoy to! :)

digressing, 987FM can be the radio station that accompanied me throughtout my academic years so far! i have been listening to it since i was studying in primary 3! wow.

got posted to mindef as a clerk. really lucky to get posted to a unit so close to my house. looking forward to leading a new life next week. till next time bye!

love in this club

2008-03-13T22:16:00.004+08:00

firstly the blog title has got no link with this blog entry just putting it because it is a new single by usher and i love it the first time i heard that song!

got my A level results last week. i scored really well i surprised myself because according to past history i would score better for prelims than the real deal, which was really sad. so i didn't hold much high hopes this time and was really happy that i did well. i got perfect score 8 distinctions! however i am in a state of dilemma now. regarding what course to take and what future career path to take. the future seems really uncertain...

bmt ended for me on tuesday! for us pes c recruits we didn't have the usual POP. instead we had POC which i seriously don't think it even exist. basically we just secretly left tekong beach resort for good after cleaning up the parade square for POP later in the day. bmt would be a really boring experience with me doing sai kang almost everyday (especially rifle cleaning which we would spend the whole day stripping and wiping it, possibly due to the lack of things for us to do anyway) but thanks to all my bunkmates and sergeants who made the whole experience really memorable and special. singing at the top of our voices in the bunk with guitars and playing monopoly till we drop to name a few haha. made some really good friends and i even tried to play soccer today with some of them. yea, you didn't read wrongly i actually went to play soccer HAHA. must say that it was quite fun :)

aiyah this blog entry is just here to keep my blog alive. i almost forgot that i have a blog nowadays. too busy chatting on msn and facebooking.

Usher ft Young Jeezy- Love In This Club

brrrr nice song to chill out to on this cold night. my back still aches from the after effects of carrying the duffel bag which i suspect weighs half my body weight... i think my body is getting old lol.

amazing grace

2008-03-12T00:19:00.002+08:00

amazing grace... how sweet the sound :)

of laziness and being unfit

2008-03-02T12:21:00.005+08:00

Don't know why but I don't really eat much nowadays. Seems to be feeling full on many occasions. Not that i ate a lot in the past, but now I seem to be eating lesser which is really scary. I suspect this situation is due to my lack of mobility. Can't really remember the last time that i really exercised. sigh.

I thought I have solved my computer problems last week but a virus seems to be lurking somewhere in my MP3 player. I plugged in my MP3 player yesterday to organise the sogns in it and TADAH! the whole computer got infected with the same old virus again. Only this time the virus seem to have attain immunity and I couldn't find the source in the system registry to remove it completely. So I can imagine my computer sickly self while I am typing this entry.

early book in today, but no complains cause we got to book out on thrusday last week!

thinking of buying a bag and a pair of shoes for myself. this thought has been present since last year... wonder when it would become a reality haha. i realised i need to get some clothes too, but the problem is it is really difficult to get fitting clothes for myself.

A level results would most probably be finally coming out this friday... i am keeping my fingers crossed. Don't know why when the date draws near, my confidence level seems to be idirectly proportionate to the number of days to results day.

I need to pack my field pack now. Haven't really pack through the items in my field pack since i came back on thursday other than washign the clothes. i realised i forgot to bring home some clothes to wash.

last week in BMT with these guys!...

of essays and field camp

2008-02-24T12:16:00.004+08:00

decided to pen down a few thoughts. i realised i should be careful of what i say in the army...

last week was "field camp" for us with the apostrophe because we got to come back to the company line to sleep at night. yesterday we had to pen this essay to explain why our bunk was dirty. our section crapped this three pages long essay which i thought amused the platoon sergeant just as much as we had amused ourselves.

going for DSTA final selection interview tomorrow. just hope to do my best.

next week would be live firing. i sense disaster ahead, for i struggled even during the imt which is pretty much like an arcade game.

we had homework this weekend!!! yea, don't be surprise army gives homework too. i had to write essays and appraisals which i haven't really got started at all yet.

so far army life would have been monotonous if not for my cool bunkmates! :)

POC (passing out ceremony) is on 11 march! which is really soon. sense of ambivalence. just as i hate returning to the damned island after each book out i pretty much sense that i would miss tekong life after POC. I don't know...

off to my grandmother house for a sumptuous lunch!

excused!

2008-02-06T14:32:00.000+08:00

back! alive and not kicking haha. nursing a terrible cough with lots of phlegm to spare. anyway my two weeks of confinement wasn't much like a confinement since i booked out for the MFA scholarship talk and ended up having a fever. In the end, I reported sick from outside and got to rest at home for two days before returning to tekong aka the damned island lol. I booked out yesterday night feeling really tired and sick but still rushed down to join my family members for a renuion dinner at Warren Country Club.

not supposed to blog any details regarding army life. Just that I think there is something wrong with the tekong water or something a lot of people are falling sick. My section mates (aka bunk mates) are all jc students and are really cool and helpful. So I feel fortunate enough to be able to spend the next two months or so with them! haha. Just before booking out, 4 of my bunk mates have already fallen sick and went home before including me myself.

Since I am in PES C, NS didn't require me to perfomr really strenuous activities. Nevertheless there was the usual rushing for time, marching, drills...etc. The funny thing is that everyday increasing number of people are wearing the "excuse tag" which shows that they are excused from jumping, marching, running, physical activities, army uniforms...blah blah blah. I think sooner or later my whole platoon would have the excused card haha. I am excused from road march, so everytime they have that activity I would start to wash the toilets and pick up dead leaves. I think my company building is going to be polished and would shine sooner or later lol. I am easily recognised in my company owing to my stature and the many officers and sergeants have given me lots of different nicknames. really hilarious.

chinese new year ever today...but I couldn't eat all the chinese new year goodies. damn! shall post pictures of my chinese new year visitations next time... then you guys could see how I look being botak! my parents think that I look funny because my head is really round like a watermelon lol.

5 hours

2008-01-25T10:07:00.000+08:00

about 5 hours till my stated official enlistment time. in a state of ambivalence now. could not help but to feel excited and nervous at the same time regarding what to expect and what i am going to experience soon. thanks to all the good luck messages from my family members and friends. those little words of encouragement are really important if army life would be too difficult for me, but i would stay optimistic. the other day joel called me from camp and described to me about his army experience so far. he told me that he could not get used to it at first but it got okay after a while. i think everyone would have a little bit of difficulty adjusting to the very different communal lifestyle but we must be able to adapt. i think now the part i am most worried about for army is the immunisation. sounds lame, but i hate needles lol. this is one of the many reasons why i would not take up medicine, even though my parents keep promoting it in front of me, obviously hinting that i should consider that course in university.

i heard that A level results would be out next week. having my DSTA scholarship assessment next week too, wondering if i can book out to take it. the more i read about imperial, the more i am tempted to take up an engineering course there! just keeping my fingers crossed. hope my results and performance would take me there, if not i have already tried my best. :)

thanks again...and adios! see everyone during chinese new year...with a slight lack of hair!

10days!

2008-01-15T09:41:00.000+08:00

decided to make a lightning post here. 10 days before enlistment! there are still a lot of things i have not done...like reading the whole harry potter series again. I am thinking of brining the books to tekong but it would be ridiculous. Imagine carrying seven books back haha.

I went for some NS shopping with Jun Wei yesterday. As my cousin told me there is no need to buy anything actually, I ended up not buying everything that people recommended.

ok I am off for breakfast...

ushering the new year

2007-12-31T15:20:00.000+08:00

decided to blog one last entry for the year 2007. looking back, this has been a eventful year, with the usual ups and downs. major events this year were mainly school events like taekwondo poomsae competition (which I totally flopped much to my dismay) and of course A levels. come to think of it HwaChong has given me the opportunity to meet so many new friends, great teachers and I have indeed matured alot in HwaChong even some of my friends think so in the christmas cards they have given me haha. I would definitely miss HwaChong and grateful for what she had given me.

oh suddenly got the blogger block. too lazy to blog. listening to 987 FM's top 100 songs countdown fo rthe year 2007 now. think the number 1 song for the year 2007 has to be Rihanna's Umbrella. I mean no matter how much one hate that song or finds it irritating it is a mega hit that is so popular almost everyone on the street now knows the famous phrase "ella ella eh eh...".

inviting my aunts, uncles and cousins later over to my house for a mini countdown party. I am helping to cook two dishes! Hope i would not screw up.

Hope year 2008 would be a fantastic year for me and of course to you too if you are reading this. Just uploaded my handphone pictures and I saw one with me wearing the spectacles I made for army. It looks like a gigantic goggles on me. I think it is too big, but oh well. Guess I would look like this in army with the botak hair that is.

Wishing everyone...

messed

2007-12-29T23:24:00.000+08:00

don't know why but the more i pack my room... the "messier" it seems to get. sigh.

what major?

2007-12-28T11:07:00.000+08:00

i just did a casual quiz that actually advices what major one should take. the results kind of stunned me because those areas that i scored highly in are precisely those that i am considering to take up in university. definitely not medicine like some of my family members have been encouraging me to take.

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Visual&PerformingArts

You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in the Visual or Performing Arts (e.g., Art, Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Culinary Arts, Dance, Drawing, Fashion Design, Film, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Marketing (advertising), Music, Music Education, Music Theory, Painting, Photography, Theatre).

It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.

HR/BusinessManagement

69%

Physics/Engineering/Computer

69%

Visual&PerformingArts

69%

Biology/Chemistry/Geology

63%

Psychology/Sociology

56%

Accounting/Finance/Marketing

56%

Education/Counseling

56%

PoliticalScience/Philosophy

56%

Nursing/AthleticTraining/Health

56%

English/Journalism/Comm

50%

Mathematics/Statistics

50%

French/Spanish/OtherLanguage

50%

Religion/Theology

44%

History/Anthropology/LiberalArts

38%

in addition, dorea made this hilarious elf video of us. do watch it HERE to crack you up haha.

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-24T22:39:00.000+08:00

hello!

yesterday i had a fantastic christmas gathering with my classmates. my first so called christmas party. we had the usual gift exchange and mr teo came to join in the fun!

the unusual thing was that we cooked most of our food. michelle brought her mom speciality shepard's pie and the rest of the food were cooked at dorea's house by us! the girls helped with the cutting of the food and me, joel and dorea's maid did most of the cooking! i guess the food wasn't too bad because no one complained :P lol.

thanks to dorea's family for generously allowing us to mess up their kitchen quite a bit!

ingredients for spaghetti

the food. pizzas were from pastamania using a gift voucher that our class won last time.

shao hsien the giant eater! he looks thin but he got abs and eats alot! i dumped like a mountain hill of spaghetti on his plate (haha was trying to clear the food because there were too much) and he finished it! pretty amazing given that it was his third serving already *gasp*. hope that i could eat so much like him. his stomach is really like a bottomless pit. on the contrary, the girls ate so little we overestimated their appetite which explains for the excess food haha.

65 candle flame!

group shot with Mr Teo.

me and mingming reminiscing the time in J1 during valentine's day when we took a shot with this similar pose.

the people who did the nice decorations!

me and joel trying to be lame by imitating that pose which zoe tay and fann wong did for a famous scene in a local drama. i think it was the one in which they were trying to "hear" something from "a golden pillow". joel looks really hilarious in this picture!

random shot.

i actually picked aik ling to exchange my gift with. the irony...

Mr Teo was really sweet he wrapped these random miniature perfumes and separated them into those for males and females. we were told to pick our gift, unwrapped them and test whether we like the smell. if not we can still exchange with one another. i got a raulph lauren POLO BLACK perfume.

many more pictures i have uploaded on my facebook account.

class guys at the party!

me giving our class gift to mr teo.

completely random.

after that for the post-eating segment of the party we played this game which involves bloating ourselves with water. our fate depends on which card we picked.

mingming, yeowlin and yongkang terribly bloated after drinking about 7 cups of water. luckily yongkang and mingming have got the toilet pass! poor yeowlin. people adjacent to the one who got sabo-ed to drink must also drink a cup of water each which explain the plight of the three people above because yeowlin was rather unlucky lol. poor rongkang had to drink even more cups of water (probably about 12 cups in total) because he forgot to perform the actions that people have introduced as new additional rules for the game.

haha look at mingming looking depressed... she was probably on high tide. dorea was feeding bao jun because we were not allowed to use our own hands to drink. this rule was introduced halfway in the game.

thanks 65 for a fun christmas party!

last but not least...MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

grandparents' birthday

2007-12-20T22:16:00.000+08:00

today is my grandparents' birthday. actually i am unsure of the actual date of their birthdays (according to my mother their birth dates weren't recorded anywhere), but just sure that their birth dates are pretty close. so we always celebrate both of their birthdays simultaneously.

i am grateful to have grandparents who cared for me. happy birthday to ah ma and ah gong!

=/

2007-12-18T11:31:00.000+08:00

really unhappy with my dad. today me and my mom are planning to go to IKEA to get some stuffs for our old house. unfortunately, IKEA doesn't give out plastic bags and some of the items that I am planning to buy are rather bulky. so it would be quite a hassle to carry them on the MRT (my mother doesn't have a driving license).

I researched and sort of know how to drive there, but the problem is I don't know how to drive! I want to teach my dad who claims that he doesn't know the directions, but I guess he is more interested in playing this rather stupid online game (most of my friends despise it) call MAPLESTORY. I mean come to think of it, it is quite hilarious for an adult like him to play such a game. his account has got a level 124 character I think, what a joke. I once complained about this on my blog and he cut down on his addiction but now he is back to playing again. He even printed like one whole pile of notes on maplestory (I know you are sniggering), and calenders are filled with random scribblings of maplestory usernames (for his use) which make them really unsightly.

ok enough of this, just wanted to get this off my chest. I am more than motivated to get a driving license and a decent-paying job in the future (LOL! this is highly impossible but it is okay to dream right).

revival

2007-12-12T22:51:00.000+08:00

sigh i guess no one really visit this half-dead blog now but it is time for revival i guess.

anyway my proficiency in the english language is just really horrible. was trying to apply for the DSTA scholarship at the very last minute yesterday and wrote the application essay in a hurry. it was a really screwed up essay and michelle and me laughed so hard while reading the disjoint essay outloud and trying to edit it an hour before the application deadline (deadline was by 11 December 2007).

got my prom dvd today. basically it just consists of a whole collection of random pictures taken by our school's photographer zhong wei.

going out with my mom tomorrow to her friend's spectacle shop to make a black-rimmed spectacles to prepare for army. speaking of army, i feel really unprepared. sigh.

quite a lot of things happened during the looong absence from blogging but i am too lazy to update them now. will update soon on the latest happenings when i take more pictures!

old pictures.

2007-11-18T00:30:00.000+08:00

hello i am blogging again! A levels haven't really officially ended and i am already rotting in front of the computer. anyway saw some really old pictures from the good old RV days and decided to post them up. felt a little nostalgic while looking at them haha.

been renting DVDs and VCDs to watch. i thought "freedom writers" is a pretty good show. going to catch "shrek 3" later.

as for physics MCQ...i would see i can do to salvage my mediocre performance for paper 2 and 3 sigh.

last but not least, another song recommendation again! i swear this song is so good i listened to it on repeat mode for 20 minutes continuously without getting sick of it. :)

Built To Last - Melee
I've looked for love in stranger places,
but never found someone like you.
Someone whose smile makes me feel I've been holding back,
and now there's nothing I can't do.

'Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all it's built to last.

All of our friends saw from the start.
So why didn't we believe it too?
Whoa yeah, now look where we are.
You're in my heart now.
And there's no escaping it for you.

'Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all it's built to last.

Walking on the hills that night with those fireworks and candlelight
You and I were made to get love right

'Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all it's built to last.

'Cause you are the sun in my universe,
considered the best when we've felt the worst
and most of all it's built to last.

i am back!

2007-11-14T21:24:00.000+08:00

hello everyone!

haven't blogged for like almost two months?

anyway A levels is ending soon. isn't very smooth sailing but glad that at least more than three quarters of it is over. i guessed i handled this examination very badly not as in the preparation sense but in the emotional sense. it was almost like deja vu. a replay of O levels.

anyway good luck for the rest of the papers everyone!

really like this song alot. i think alicia keys is beautiful and really talented.

prelim's over

2007-09-20T17:11:00.000+08:00

for me at least. cause i don't have the h3 paper tomorrow. good luck to those taking h3 papers tomorrow!

anyway have to say that i am relatively calm for this examination. wasn't really in the "i-need-to-mug-hard-to-get-all-As-if-not-i-would-really-regret-it" mode. just studied random notes practise random questions. no real study plan or anything like that. hoping that i could improve my results from that of block test two.

my class going to have an outing to sentosa tomorrow. more blogging tomorrow i guess. and to all those who continue to support my blog by tagging with thsoe encouraging comments... thanks! :)

just keep sleeping, just keep sleeping, just keep sleeping...

2007-08-07T23:30:00.000+08:00

serioulsy wondered what is wrong with me! i kept sleeping my afternoons away and i just woke up at about 10.30pm just now. anyway just a quick post to update on my rather mundane life.

last friday michelle invited us to her birthday party at her place. as usual being such an excellent cook her mom prepared an sumptuous affair of sherpards pie, red ruby desert, baked rice, vietnamnese rolls, meat balls, pumpkin soup, prawn salad, pizzaS among others. so you can actually guess how full we got after leaving her house. thanks for the great fun and food!

us with our present for michelle! i made that photo collage frame for her and there is this picture of her and rongkang standing so closely they looked like a couple and michelle was irritated by it! LOL. i guess it served its purpose of being there :P.

national day celebrations in school tomorrow...happy national day everyone! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

2007-07-10T18:33:00.001+08:00

thanks for being so encouraging and sorry for wasting your phone bills...

i know you would hate this but i have to say it again...

happy birthday! so fetch! :P

passed!

2007-07-08T22:54:00.000+08:00

finally after three years, i managed to pass the grade 6 piano practical examinations! (although i passed by a mere three marks, but i am still very glad). i realised that i should channel more time and energy onto practising piano, but now that i have the drive to practise, i have got not much time to do so! school work is getting busier than ever with prelims looming ahead.

anyway just watched the news on the pile of rubbish people littered in london after watching the live earth concert. ironic isn't it?

taste of failure

2007-07-05T16:45:00.000+08:00

got back my mathematics block test two paper yesterday and as expected i failed and got a S grade for it. wasn't really sad but was very shock initially and sounded a bit condescending when i complained about it. so sorry to my friends if i was kind of insensitive. just hope to work harder and hope that i can actually score better for prelims. i mean, it is not totally impossible to improve from S to A right? haha.

got home quite early today planning to be very motivated and start doing tutorials but here i am online slacking again LOL. mr teo reminded us today on the lack of time and how we would need to study at least 8 if not 12 hours a day! madness!

before i forgot the real purpose of this blog post is:

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY YUSHU!

anyway i like this song and would like to dedicate it to yushu! happy birthday once again and thanks for your guidance in taekwondo! haha :)

Teenagers
By My Chemical Romance

They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do

Because the drugs never work
They gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They gonna rip up your heads,
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine

They say that teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone will bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me

The boys and girls in the clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
We'll make them pay for the things that they did

They say that teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone will bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me

Ohhh yeah!

They say that teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone will bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me

All together now!

Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone will bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
[x2]

PS: i could not type my blog posts under the "compose" function because i could not seem to click on the "compose" link. is there a problem with my computer or is this a problem inherent in blogger?

happy birthday to yeowlin!

2007-07-03T23:10:00.001+08:00

lack the fighting spirit

2007-07-02T12:07:00.000+08:00

sigh. seriously wonder what is wrong with me. i lack the fighting spirit that i once possessed. especially after looking through all the block test two papers and realised that i know how to solve the questions but yet i have written the wrong answers or committed some grave careless errors in the real examination itself. i feel kind of demoralised. argh.

promised to study for physics paper 3 since last thursday but until now i didnt really accomplish a lot.

some pictures that we took when i was at my aunt's place yesterday for dinner after swimming. were at the rooftop and it was kind of breezy.

nightmare is ending!

2007-06-29T00:20:00.000+08:00

went to watch the movie "transformers" today at orchard cineleisure with my classmates. didn't really enjoy the show because i was shagged from all the late night last minute revisions for block test two. by the way, think i am going to fail my mathematics paper today sigh. in addition, the paper this morning seemed to have drained all the energy within me. i slept for about 15 minutes during the movie. not that the movie was bad (it is an exciting action-packed movie actually), but because i was simply too tired. those loud robotic voices continuous blasting through the speakers operating at high amptitude and frequency during the movie kind of cause me to have a slight headache LOL.

anyway, physics paper 3 on tuesday and that would mark the end of block test two. i would probably score the worst i have ever done for any examinations in my whole academic life (LOL yea it is seriously that terrible). i was simply too unmotivated to study during the june holidays and studied at snail pace speed (like one chapter per day). this was how i probably ended up having to face such disastrous consequences.

ironically, i have the impulse to get back the papers as soon as possible to check out on how badly i performed!

music you can relax to!

2007-06-16T10:59:00.000+08:00

block test 2 is approaching and i can feel the insurmountable stress that cause me to lose my appetite! but these music are my current favourites and i thought i would like to share with all of you too! enjoy! :)

back to practising piano!

there goes block test two!

2007-06-13T10:41:00.000+08:00

received a really funny email from my chemistry tutor mr teo a few days ago urging us to study hard for the upcoming very challenging block test two.

but the thing is i am seriously unprepared. spent the first two weeks of the holidays busy with army checkup, my h3 examination and piano examination. now that i want to really study, i am caught with some sickness. vomitted five times yesterday and feel so giddy couldn't really study at all...

so in conclusion...

there goes block test two! tough times ahead i guess =/.

short post

2007-06-03T22:15:00.000+08:00

this morning i received a surprise sms greeting from kelvin, one friend that i got to know form my tour group when i went to gold coast, austrialia, in secondary two and clicked very well with. caught up abit with him having not talked for about 4 years and realised that he is in cjc now. still remember how the two of us wondered off to shop along surfer's paradise and got our parents quite worried haha. anyway i went back to look at the pictures which brought back some memories of the trip.

a very funny photo of myself in my opinion. look at those socks! no wonder i am not used to wearing ankle socks now.

that's kelvin (the biggest sized one) beside me. can't really remember but think we were on some cruise. the rest are my cousins.

kelvin behind me queuing for some ride in the warner brothers theme park.

random picture of kelvin that i took on the plane going back home. i seriously wonder why didn't i take any picture with him at all since he was sitting beside me on the plane.

anyway hope he is doing fine with his life now...haha if chance permits maybe we could go to other parts of austrialia again like perth or melbourne.

went hiking today with my sister, mother and my aunt. to think that my parents used to bring me there almost every week when i was young. the trail stretches from zheng hua park all the way to bukit timah hill summit and back again. it was rather fun; brought back some of my childhood memories. still remember how my cousin love to catch those random grasshoppers while we were hiking with his hands and scaring the hell out of me with them. it was a good form of exercise too especially one part of the trail which we call it the "yao4 ming4 bo2" (literally translated: want life slope) lol. think i should go there every weekend with my mom to unwind and relax and breath in some fresh oxygen haha.

anyway the main purpose of this post is too wish someone happy birthday.

someone who always scream at me, bully me, scold me, criticise me and always threatening to give me a knuckle "sandwich" in school...

but he is still one of my really good friends cum "senior" haha (he is one year older than me you see)...

have a fantastic 19th birthday! :)

back!

2007-06-01T15:39:00.000+08:00

sorry to all readers! i was on hiatus mode for the past few weeks because i was either too lazy or too busy to blog. fret not, i am back with a brand new post and more pictures!

last friday was the last official taekwondo training *emo*. to think that i can still remember the day when i decided to join taekwondo club as my new cca. was hesitant at first because i have always been joining those arts related ccas and i could say that i actually ventured out of my comfort zone to join a sports cca. didn't regret at all for i have learnt some defence skills and my fitness improved seriously! i can at least pass my NAPFA test and get a bronze now. yea, for me this is quite a feat because i have not passed NAPFA test before since secondary one. met some really good friends in the cca itself especially shenyang (first person i got to know in taekwondo because no one else from my class or rv join the cca), gaobean (delicious besides the fact that it is very vulgar), quannie (my secondary two classmate who i got to talk alot more again this year :)), shu-nie (this experienced black belt guy who always guide me), kenny, johnny(WHAT'S WITH THE "NIEEEE"s guess it is just a habit :P), zibei gang, suzanne, yuanjun, jiawei...and alot others. thanks all for a very memorable short year!

went for class chalet on wednesday night which i stayed only for the BBQ owing to the my h3 physics examination which i just took this morning. keeping my fingers crossed that i can pass the exam!

anyway the BBQ was a fun-filled event as usual. our class invited a few teachers and mr ong, miss tengara and miss jacqueline yeo came. they even brought along home-cooked food and drinks along!

being the same old dramatic me, i suggested having this grand opening entrance for the teachers when they arrive at the chalet. so we lined up along two sides and welcomed the teachers as though they were guest-of-honours gracing the occasion. had alot of fun laughing and clapping while doing so.

for miss tengara we even used the cooking pot lid as the "gong" to signal the start of the BBQ (which had already started by the time she arrived because she came at about 9.30pm but never mind). for the rest of night i spent the time chatting with the teachers and get to know the teachers alot better outside the classmate. apparently miss tengara was quite "terrorised" by me in class because i asked alot of questions. no wonder all my report slips since secondary one has got "yichun is a very inqusitive student..." or something to that effect under the teacher's comment section. so i would probably TRY not to ask too much in the future and probably not have much chance to do so because the school term is ending very soon for us j2s ):. there was another occasion when i fell off my chair during tutorial while helping yeowlin to get some paper on the floor. miss tengara said she was very stunned when i suddeny rose above the table because she didn't see me lost of balance and fell onto the floor. someone commented that i look like mr ong when we were taking a picture together and mr ong said i can be his god-son LOL. miss jaqueline yeo was fun to tlak to as usual as she shared us her new teahcing life in ACSI. according to her, ACSI students of our age are better behaved than hwachong students not taking our class into consideration haha. all in all, had a fabulous time mingling around with my classmates, teachers and juniors (yes they came too!). the fun should not just end there that night but i have to go home to prepare for the grotesque h3 physics examination.

BBQ-ing the food available. variety sticks and chicken wings and the juicy cheesy tomatoes prepared by yuani, stingrays, satays and sotong that we ordered among many others. thanks to joel, jupiter and yeowlin for starting the charcoal fire. so scouting in his secondary school days do come to good use for joel.

miss jaqueline yeo's GRAND entrance.

miss tengara sounding the "gong" with a pair of tongs.

random pictures...

miss tengara being dramatic with me haha!

a big toast for 65!

all of us present at the chalet bbq! 06S65 rocks! :)

random things we did in school yesterday

2007-05-19T11:11:00.000+08:00

awkward silence.

2007-05-03T18:30:00.000+08:00

it is puzzling how one sometimes always try to restrain oneself from saying something, expressing something or doing something due to fear of misunderstanding, offending someone or ...

maybe i have got no EQ but i usually just speak my mind. probably that is the reason why i always regret what i said and people around me judged me differently after what i have said. sometimes i really what to know what people are thinking or feeling... what they said don't really seem to coincide with their inner most thoughts.

just a random entry. :)

bleah.

2007-05-01T08:59:00.000+08:00

i have come to realise that my actions, behaviour and all are just so different from the other guys in my school.

sometimes i just have the feeling that i don't really fit in... like i couldn't really find a good friend that truly shares my thoughts, hobbies and sentiments. but until this person appears i guess i would just have to accept the way things are now. guess that is the reason why i have always hope i have had an elder sibling.

didn't attain a silver for my NAPFA test because of the standing board jump station. would continue to practise and keeping my fingers cross that i would be able to pass eventually.

my school work is in a mess. couldn't really catch up with what the lecturer is teaching and the real problem lies in the fact that i am always so unproductive when i have so little time to spare! my piano pieces lacked phrasing and singing tone and of course my taekwondo poomsae pattern showcased a lack of profficiency and standard.

kind of appropriate song to describe my sub-melancholy mood right now. enjoy! :)

The Pieces Don't fit Anymore
James Morrison

I've been twisting and turning
in a space that's too small
I've been drawing the line
and watching it fall
You've been closing me in
closing the space in my heart
Watching us fading
and watching us fall apart

Well I can't explain why it's not enough
Coz I gave it all to you
And if you leave me now
Oh just leave me now
It's the better thing to do

It's time to surrender
It's been too long pretending
There's no use in trying
When the pieces don't fit anymore

Oh, don't misunderstand how I feel
Coz I've tried, yes I've tried
Still I don't know why
No I don't know why

Why I can't explain why it's not enough
Coz I gave it all to you
And if you leave me now
Oh just leave me now
It's the better thing to do

It's time to surrender
It's been too long pretending
There's no use in trying
When the pieces don't fit anymore
The pieces don't fit anymore

You pulled me under
so I had to give in
Such a beautiful mess
that's breaking my skin
Well I'll hide all the bruises
I'll hide all the damage that's done
But I show how I'm feeling
until all the feeling has gone

Well I can't explain why it's not enough
Coz I gave it all to you
And if you leave me now
Oh just leave me now
It's the better thing to do

It's time to surrender
It's been too long pretending
There's no use in trying
When the pieces don't fit anymore
The pieces don't fit anymore

busy days ahead!

2007-04-20T21:34:00.000+08:00

i foresee really busy days ahead of me with piano examination, h3 physics examination and takewondo competition coming up ahead of me. i know i have no time to waste but i just couldn't help wasting time. like coming online to talk crap and blogging rubbish like what i am doing now. okay this is not rubbish, do read on.

i got selected into taekwondo competition as an individual participant! at first didn't want to even want to take the selection test but in the end i thought no harm trying. thanks to yushu for his help on improving my stunts i miraculously got selected to join the competition. perhaps this is the time i can contribute most to hc tkd. so decided to put in my best effort for the competition although i am just an average or perhaps below average member in taekwondo.

next is piano examination. I DON'T WANT TO FAIL MY GRADE 6 PIANO PRACTICAL EXAMINATION YET AGAIN! it would really be a waste of time and money if i fail again. however i should have been practising instead of blogging!

ntu h3 physics course is driving me mad. i haven't hand in three experiment reports which are long overdue. and the final examination is drawing closer everyday with me not understanding 80% of what is thought so far. all my term tests are super screwed so i just hope that i can at least do well enough for the final examination to at least get an overall pass.

of course, there is always my most feared NAPFA test to worry about. i created an historical moment for myself last wednesday when i actually PASSED 2.4KM RUN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY WHOLE LIFE. yes unbelievable as it may seem i didn't pass my 2.4km run since secondary one although my pe teachers back in rv kept giving me re-tests and "pe rememdial". my timing was 12.19 sec, passing by 10 seconds. the irony is that it is just a TRIAL test. hope i can pass during the real test next week...but i would still fail NAPFA anyway because i wouldn't ever pass standing board jump. haven't jumped beyond 200cm before in my life. maximum distance i have ever achieved was 198cm.

guess i gonna go back to practise my piano pieces...

good luck for everyone who are having competition next week!

the black parade

2007-04-15T16:04:00.000+08:00

was listening to the new single "i don't love you" off my chemical romance's latest album "the black parade" and have the sudden urge to blog about this fantastic album and of course introduce this really beautiful sad song.

heard the entire album and thought that most of the songs in the album are rather emotional and centres around the theme of death. i just found out from wikipedia that "the black parade" is a concept album centering on a character known as "The Patient," who, dying of cancer, looks back on his life from a jaded perspective. The words "black" and "parade" made you think of death but also celebration. that make the album sound like a celebration of life and death.

okay enjoy the song and have a great week ahead everyone! :)

I Don't Love You
My Chemical Romance

Well, when you go
Don't ever think I'll make you try to stay
And maybe when you get back
I'll be off to find another way

And after all this time that you still owe
You're still the good-for-nothing I don't know
So take your gloves and get out
Better get out
While you can

When you go
Would you even turn to say
"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday"

Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading
So sick and tired of all the needless beating
But baby when they knock you
Down and out
It's where you oughta stay

And after all the blood that you still owe
Another dollar's just another blow
So fix your eyes and get up
Better get up
While you can
Whoa, whooa

When you go
Would you even turn to say
"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday"

Well come on, come on

When you go
Would you have the guts to say
"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday"

I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday

I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday

thanks to all for a very special birthday!

2007-04-06T00:08:00.000+08:00

birthday for me ever since primary school has always been a simple event of cutting a cake and occasionally inviting some cousins over to my house fo a simple celebration. this year's was probably the most memorable birthday i have ever had, all thanks to my family and my wonderful friends.

last tuesday my mom bought a mango cake for me and invited my third aunt coreena and cousin bryan over for a simple cake cutting session. this family celebration happened one day before my birthday because i won tickets to the premiere of "The Reaping" on 987 FM which was on that night of my birthday. the movie was a huge disappointment by the way. shall elaborate later.

aunt coreena gave me this "magic ball" which isn't very magical haha. apparently my aunt told me that my uncle was super fascinated by the ball that he bought home 10 over of those magic balls and stood looking at the "magic ball" at the shop for a long time.

this is how it works. actually it simple contain a triangular "floating" dice that gives 20 different common answers such as "yes" and "no" such that it claims that it can actually gives "answers" to your questions and what you are thinking in your mind that time. sort of like the sorcerer's stone. the first question i thought of was "will i pass my napfa test?" and i got this answer from the "magic ball": "outlook not so good" sigh.

went to school the next day expecting my class to sing me a birthday song and the birthday gift from the class, which is sort of like the standard birthday celebration our class would have on one's birthday. however, my class didn't sing me a birthday song that morning after morning assembly so i thought they had forgetten and would do so later.

never did i expect after math tutorial they gave me this huge surprise by playing this powerpoint presentation that michelle, jiangchuang and a whole lot of others have made especially for me for my birthday. i was super shock when i saw the compilation of random videos and hilarious pictures of myself that we took during last year when we felt sian in school. it was like one of the best gift i have received. michelle told me how much effort they had put in into making the presentation. yes michelle the friend who seem to be "chronically irritated" with me as how she put it. due to their tech-unsavvvyness they had to find ways and means to download videos from mingming's xiaoling's jupiter's dorea's and whole lot of other's handphones and then painstakingly convert them to the format which can be played on windows media player and powerpoint presentation. i was super touched when i saw the video on miss huang's laptop that i cried uncontrollably. cannot imagine the amount of work they had put into this and of course sacrificing precious time which could be spent on cca or tutorials. thanks to this group of friends man! will remember them for life...best bunch of people i have ever met :).

below is the end product and three screen-shots off the presentation. it is titled "MEAN GUY" because they knew that i used to craze over "MEAN GIRLS" and like to imitate the bimbotic antics off the movie HAHAHA. even the cover was sincerely designed but they have troubles printing it out so in the end i got this temporary cover which was written by michelle (haha i could tell her "type-writter" handwriting).

after which jupiter junjie and dorea handed me this pail of bears that they made with their own hands! so now i finally know why jun jie had always refused to let me see his handphone and why they had been mysteriously not around after school when i tried to find them. really appreciate their effort especially from jupiter who always "strangle" me, scold me and ask me to stop singing. i think most of the time i am asking for it for being so irritating but i couldn't help not singing espcially when i heard my favourite song on 987 FM so sorry!!! i would try to control myself next time. then feel really guilty for blaming dorea when i found out that they were sort of lying to me when they said they are going to "make cake" after school when actually they had gone to michelle's house to make these cute bears. really appreciate it! thanks a million pals! :)

mingming yeowlin yuani and rongkang (though he was too lazy to write in the birthday card and asked mingming to help him do so haha) for the cool bottle and the "musical" birthday card in which they had recorded a birthday song for me haha. unfortunately the battery went flat after a few consecutive pressing to play the song. thanks!

was quite surprise when my "bus friend" (haha because know him through taking bus 67 to and back from school everyday) knew about my birthday and came to pass me a cute turtle. thanks! now the turtle that billy found on the floor in school and gave to me during promotional examination next year finally found a "partner" haha.

thanks to all those (yuan jun, serene, cindy, huiqing, gwendolyn, billy bomber, jiaxu, bernie, sylvia, francis, angel-cum-senior heidi, peck yan, weekiat, jonathan (they sexy big thing! haha), shirlene, aaron, chuanhan and idol zhiyong...sorry if i missed out anyone) who remembered and smsed me with their birthday wishes. especially angie, who smsed me right after her 5 hour long operation to adjust her jawline. hope she would get well soon man! :) of course not forgetting others who wished me happy birthday including liu pu, big bro jeremy, monica and stellicia for the ear-to-mouth whisper-ish birthday song and all the taekwondo members including black master jiawei, pro bro yushu, spartan shenyang, quannie, GAObin, kenneth and johnny! haha what a string of weird names! luckily they didn't "bond" me like what they had said phew.

after taekwondo rushed down to marina square to catch the reaping with shaohsien junjie and dorea. the movie has got crappy script, special effects and plot. the only saviour is probably hilary swank but even so she alone isn't enough to salvage the really terrible movie. "A film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon" as how yahoo movies has put it. felt like leaving the theatre halfway LOL luckily the movie was short only about one and a half hours.

after that shaohsien accompanied me home on bus 190 while dorea and junjie went home via mrt. thanks shaohsien for purposely taking 190 with me though he could have taken 171 to save me from the boring bus trip home haha.

all in all, thanks to all for a very special birthday! :)

celebrity parents

2007-03-30T18:24:00.000+08:00

hello once again! been a long time since i last blogged. got back a couple of block test one results and so far only know the overall grade for maths which i got A and was super relieved :).

had council nominees introduction today. thanks to some entertaining videos that got me laughing and feeling very happy. i like especially the group with the "SIAN NOTE" haha. i thought it was super creative; those people with their names written in the book would become very sian. there was this particular indian girl who acted the transition between enthusiasm and sian-ness very well in the video and that got me laughing out loud.

after school went with shaohsien and engaik to the canteen when shaohsien suddenly remembered about the sports day meet participation form. we were supposed to fill in the names of people from our class who are joining the races and their next of kins, signatures plus contact numbers. however it was too late and almost everyone had gone for their cca, h3 lessons or went home. so we had no choice but to forge their signatures and give "fake" next of kins. we conveniently exercised our creativity in "naming" their next of kins. huiqing's "mom" is called "fergie yap", yongkang "dad" is "brad wong", and yeowlin's "mom" is "britney koh" etc. hope we wouldn't get into trouble with the pe department for that because we really had no choice. we couldn't find them in time to fill up the form and today's the due date.

went to the pe department office and realised that it was locked. ended up sliding that piece of application form through the door slit and it laid peacefully there. well so much for an application form.

i wonder what it would be like if all my classmates really have got celebrity parents. maybe yeowlin would follow suit and shave his head bald if his mom is britney, yongkang would have a new mom who keep adopting new children so he should have lots of god brothers and sisters by now and huiqing would have a sexy mum who loves london bridges.

back!

2007-03-22T22:02:00.000+08:00

hello everyone! i am back after having blogger's block for so long.

so it is the block test 1 period now, but i feel so slack, probably more slack than normal school days. talking about schooling, i just realised that april is approaching soon, which means that time is going to pass very quickly and before we know it we are going to graduate from hwachong! i am going to miss hwahcong and my class alot i think. okay this aside, about block test 1 i hope i would be able to do better than promotional examinations last year, although i didn't put in much effort preparing for it. just keeping my fingers crossed haha.

went to eat suki sushi buffet with a few of my classmates after the gruelling chemistry paper today. don't really enjoy eating all the raw food that much and ended up drinking lots of green tea and feeling so bloated after that i almost puked lol.

ahhhhh. my blog is getting very boring.

quick post

2007-03-05T10:51:00.000+08:00

seeing the seniors get their A level results last friday kind of motivate me to study harder? what if i didn't study hard enough and regret at the same time next year? the thought shudders me. sigh but here i am still slacking again.

yesterday was STJ at orchard cineleisure's pastamania. initially our class wanted to go miss clarity's cafe that miss huang has recommanded but we realised at the last minute that it is closed on sundays. yea so we ended up at pastamania which is not a very good choice because in my opinion the food there are all overpriced and doesn't taste really nice. nevertheless it was quite a fun gathering of S65-ians and we played pool after dinner. of course a noob like me kept making really stupid blunders haha.

oh yea know that i promised to blog about chinese new year but i am too lazy now. just wanted to show this video that i ripped from my aunt's blog. my family band performing chinese new year songs at aunt jane's house! haha we had alot of fun fooling aorund with the drums and gongs. luckily the neighbours didn't complain.

so presenting my family's chinese new year superband...

have to urge to watch "the pursuit of happyness" because i like to watch inspirational films other than chick flicks haha. however seems very difficult to find accompany and probably there isn't any time because everyone seems to have started studying hard for block test 1!

hope this week would be a more productive week for me. oh yea and i still need to collect the 100 bucks john legend CD hamper that i won from 987 at the mediacorp reception.

happy week ahead everyone! :)

Valentine's Day!

2007-02-17T10:51:00.000+08:00

this is a rather outdated post but shall blog about it for memory sake, for it would probably be the last time i am spending valentine's day in hc haha.

to start of this entry i shall introduce two more tic-tac-toe pictures taken with dorea's samsung handphone which allows one to create such cool masterpieces!

flower series...

taken in the canteen when we were feeling bored after having our meals and waiting for lecture to begin. look at yongkang at the bottom left corner...he looks hilarious!

pizza series...

us eating pizza at michelle's house before heading down to macritchie reservoir for our school's cross-country run which coincidentally always fall on valentine's day.

this year's valentine's day would be the last year spending in 06s65 with all the presents exchanging, greetings and well wishes.

spent the night before rushing through gifts for my friends and classmates. was too tired at 2am and didn't have time to write letters which i have intended to do so.

pardon my eerie looking toes at the bottom of the picture haha.

candles that i prepared for the class with jun jie's help.

as usual there is the usual angel-mortal gift exchanging. hope my angels and my mortal like the gifts i gave them. feel quite guilty because i only wrote about two to three times to each of my angels and mortals and the letters are all relatively short. i was too lazy or busy to write or just didn't have the mood too. nevertheless my angels and morta... you guys rocks ok! i really like the gifts you all gave me.

michelle giving out her one and only S65 cookies which we only get to taste once a year and this year being the last time! i just ate it for breakfast because the hawker centre isn't operating today and all the bread at home has been depleted. it tastes great!

by the way the shirt i am wearing is artistically designed by my dear mortal shengyu...haha thanks lots!

mingming, me and my intestine lookalike gift for her...and those two red stickers on my shirt are from sylvia. it reads "yichun said "i love sylvia!"" on it. lol.

as i have already mentioned we had cross country on valentine's day (which i suspect is purposefully planned by the school to help us fill the time on valentine's). left michelle's house after the pizza feast, sleeping and bridging at 2.30 pm when we were supposed to reach macritchie reservoir at 2.30 pm. thought we were really late inittially but we found out later that we were relatively early. alot of hwachongians were still waiting for the bus at the bus-stops outside njc and opposite hc when the bus we were on drove past them.

shall continue with the display of pictures...

with aikling and my valentine's-cum-belated birthday gift for her. aikling actually complained that the bowling pin looks deformed ):. well never mind.

me with yuani's nice heart and yuani with my broken clay "masterpiece" for her. a valentine's-cum-belated birthday gift also haha.

had firedrill on top of cross country on valentine's day, though there is nothing romantic about firedrill exercise. it was a funny situation when we packed our bags in the physics lecture theatre and waited for the fire alarm to start off. the lecturer mr roonie quak (he is one of the best physics lecturers in hc in my opinion) shared with us some corny jokes while we waited.

went to the field to assemble and i found out that i had my camera in my pocket. so i started taking pictures, oblivious to the announcements being made regarding the firedrill exercise.

miss huang taking attendence.

the weather was so scorching hot that even yongkang the basketballer couldn't tolerate the immense heat.

he hid under our shadows to screen himself from the sun.

mingming, jiangchuan, michelle and charmaine feeling HOT!

random showcasing of beautiful legs!

dorea, jupiter and me.

me and god-sister pamela haha.

this is one of the most rare pictures taken. how many times do we get to take a picture with a pandemonium like "stampede" occurring at the foreground? :P

me and big brother jeremy chee who is wearing the limited edition old hc pe tshirt. have been trying to get one too, but to no avail.

it is the first day of chinese new year now (wow spent like three days just to get this post done), so HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

shall blog about chinese new year in my next entry if i don't feel too lazy. stay tune!

:)

2007-02-15T23:13:00.000+08:00

hey i am back! :)

sorry for the lack of posts these days because i am rather busy with school work which i didn't have time to complete due to lack of concentration.

i guess i am back to my old self! hahahaha

more blogging with photos soon...thanks everyone!

return

2007-02-10T00:22:00.000+08:00

i realise that i am caught in this tangle of emotions and i don't know what to do about the situation.

things happened and would not change anymore.

there is no way of returning to how everything used to be in the past.

maybe i am destined to be a lousy friend.

random

2007-02-05T19:10:00.000+08:00

of uselessness, incompetence and lack of social skills.

lousy week

2007-02-04T09:23:00.000+08:00

this week has been a very unproductive lousy week. been sick the whole week, down with fever and a terrible cough. i couldn't laugh and talk like last time because everytime i tried to do so i started coughing very badly. in addition, i screwed physics SPA horribly.

i got very emotional and sensitive yesterday. i was so sad at home when my class was having JTS at sentosa. ah, maybe i just couldn't afford missing any class outings. come to think of it yesterday was the first time i missed a class outing.

went for the dinner though and took some pictures. that was after i have cheered up a little. :)

hope next week would be a great week. really looking forward to a better week ahead! :)

sick

2007-01-30T18:16:00.000+08:00

didn't go to school today because of fever, cough and sore throat.

after fluctuating between 38.5 to 39 degrees for more than a day, it is finally 37.7 degrees now.

hope i would be well enough to go to school tomorrow.

发！

2007-01-27T22:20:00.000+08:00

school this week has been pretty boring and mundane as usual, if not for my classmates who never fail to make each day interesting, unique and filled with laughter.

last sunday went to do artemis faculty cip with my class and my junior class. was supposed to distribute flyers door-to-door. was in the same group as mingming, junjie and very fun people from my junior class. thought it was gonna be very slack compared to last year's because we did the second phase last year and was supposed to carry very heavy newspapers and electrical appliances from each of the households. this time we did the first phase but it was also unexpectedly tiring. the old estates have got very complicated U-shaped and T-shaped design and each of the blocks are humougous consisting of many sections. thanks to the weird architects from the olden times who designed such odd buildings, it was difficult to keep track of where we had already given the flyers too but glad we managed to complete the task in a relatively short time and spent the rest of the time slacking in 7-eleven till 12 noon when we are supposed to meet back at jurong cc.

the wind was exceptionally strong which explains the blown-hair-effect. lol.

a random unique gigantic chinese chess board in the estate.

my cip group!

monday

don't remember anything except for the fact that i went for the ntu h3 lecture after school and spent my time stoning there trying to understand what the professor was talking about and at the same time gossiping with bernadette. was feeling quite worried when i saw students going forward to the professor to ask him questions on the topics taught while me and bernie just sat at the chair and look at them asking not because we were too lazy to ask but because we didn't know what to ask. we have only understood like 10% of the lecture and we couldn't possibly ask the lecturer to repeat everything. sigh.

tuesday

don't remember what happened at all.

wednesday

had pe trial napfa test for standing-board jump and pull-up. failed the standing-board jump as usual but i surprisingly managed to pass the pull-up component!!! super happy! so i guessed those random jumpings and holding on to this pull-up bar that my mom bought for me at home helps :D. really hope that i can pass napfa for the first time this year although my possibility of passing is only like 20%.

thursday

both my angel and mortal have finally replied me after all my consistent reminders lol. unfortunately, i haven't replied them yet because i didn't have the time to do so.

went to do two maths questions in the library with jupiter jiangchuan baojun ziye and shaohsien. after that went for a short run with ziye and baojun.

yongkang pinched me near my nimple until i got a blue-black there. all thanks to him i remember it hurting whenever i touch that part where he pinched me LOL.

so for revenge i decided to post this very unglam picture of him :P.

oh yeah think angie FINALLY managed to call through 987FM that morning to talk to carrie chong about the wildest thing she was gonna be doing that day...which was going for her CCA LOL.

friday

finally last day of a hectic week in school. went to library to print the thick stack of notes for my H3 course.

was quite a special day because i finally took a picture with my idol, ZHIYONG! LOL.

went for taekwondo training and realised that very little people went despite it being an offocial training session. friday training sessions are always like that.

after that went for dinner at curry wok with soem taekwondo mates and met my idol there again LOL.

today

went for piano lesson in the morning. sadly i didn't practise much this week again and i couldn't really perform well during the lesson. sigh.

after that went to queensway shopping centre to get myself a new pair of running shoes for school. went around looking for my size and finally settled for this one some Adidas A3 Energy Rider that the salesperson recommended. cost a lucky 88 bucks after discount and bargaining.

hope it would serve me well for the new chinese year! new year, new shoes! may i 发 both literally and for my examination scores just like the price of the shoes 88！

okay think that's quite enough for my post this week. hope next week would be a blast with busy days looming ahead. shall concentrate on dramafest this week. feeling guilty for not contributing alot (or should i say nothing) although i am supposed to be the "assistant director". not forgetting SPA, tests and of course the mind-boggling H3 lessons.

How To Save A Life

2007-01-21T22:08:00.000+08:00

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

embarrassing

2007-01-19T23:17:00.000+08:00

hello all! another hectic week has gone by in school just like that. this week has been rather routine. came home everyday just to do a few questions from various tutorials and fell asleep not too long after lol. yesterday junjie called me to ask me about some maths question and i fell asleep halfway while talking to him and lying on my bed LOL. he said i stopped talking momentarily and he called me after that i didn't response. think my mom helped me to hang up the phone after that.

my NTU H3 physics tutorial lessons aren't that bad after all. at least i understood what the professor was talking about and they are definitely better than the lectures in which i would just stare blindly into space trying to absorb things like a sponge but to no avail. the questions in the tutorial (which i didn't attempt at all after reading through the questions because all of them seem to be beyond my capability) wasn't all to difficult after all. most of them just required one step to get the answer haha.

anyway talking about tutorials i haven't been doing much tutorial this week. think i just came home to sleep everyday. lol probably lagging behind by about 1.5 tutorials per subject except for maths.

busy weekend ahead. having piano lessons tomorrow and tomorrow morning is the only time i have this weke to practise for it. after that would be back to doing tutorials or studying for the chemistry test on monday. sunday going off for cip and class outing.

by the way got addicted to imitating miss swan this week and think got many people irritated. however i couldn't help it. the more i think of miss swan the funnier i think she is. if you don't know who she is she is a character out to anger people with her ridiculous antics and reply. something like the female version of mr bean. you can watch her in action HERE haha. lots of episodes for you to choose from.

went to KAP after taekwondo training today with jupiter, junjie and dorea for dinner. ate the prosperity burger and thought it has got too much pepper and abit too spicy.

by the way jupiter and junjie realised that i always pee for a relatively long time because i drink alot of water. so they sort of counted while i pee in front of the cubicle in the school toilet and apparently the longest i have ever pee-ed continuously was 45 secs haha.

so just now i went to the KAP toilet with junjie and he started counting again when i started peeing. after which he asked to take over and count by myself. so i started counting aloud...

"16 thousand...

17 thousand...

18 thousand..."

junjie went on to wash his hands.

"19 thousand...

20 thousand..."

thats when a guy came out from the toilet cubicle and junjie saw him staring at me with awe LOL.

then i immediately stopped counting and we started laughing in the toilet.

if i see someone urinating in front of the cubicle and counting to himself how long he takes to finish his "business" i would think that he is psycho. so that man probably thought i was.

end of this blog entry with outdated pictures from last week's campfire. sorry for the delay because blogger was giving me trouble when i tried to upload the pictures in my last entry.

with my senior angel heidi!

rongkang pushing a trolley of sanitary pad dispose bins! LOL.

RV days!

05, 06, 07S65 at orientation campfire night! bathering of three batches of S65! :)

picture with myserious heavenly light lol.

with jirong from my senior class and taekwondo :)

CANDY YONG TAU FU rocks! me and yuani eat this stall almost everyday. hope we get endorsement deals from the stall auntie soon to help advertise their stall. who knows they may franchise to other schools in the future :P.

5 RVians and a Raffesian! lol

okay enough of the random picture spamming. gotta go sleep now blog again next week!

every saturday is sleeping day

2007-01-13T22:25:00.000+08:00

spent almost three quarter of the time today sleeping. think i am repaying my "sleeping debt" every saturday for the whole week. i did a simple calculation and realised that i slept only four to five hours on average during weekdays. maybe that explains why i always spend so much time sleeping every saturday. so much so that i have to kept yawning during my piano lesson every saturday and my piano teacher thought i was addicted to some drug or something.

yesterday was the J1 orientation "campfire" (which consist of a fake campfire with a fan blowing cellophane paper strips from the center some wood). the class item from artemis wasn't that great but in my opinion our faculty dance was the best! good job to the faculty committee member for putting in so much hard work in it...espcially michelle! haha. i like the athena and ares class item the most. thought skits wouldn't be too appropriate for a campfire item initially but in the end the two skits were pretty funny and caught our attention. ares class's skit about how couples around the world spent their valentine's day was especially hilarious at the scene when they showed how a couple in india spent their's. the nanyang girl who acted as the indian woman was very good and her "if you can't dance...let's just brrrrrrreak up" is still stuck in my head until now.

after that was the usual famous song and dance session when everyone would get high and all. a huge pity that it rained last night. if not the atmosphere in the parade square under the starry night (okay unsure if there was stars in the first place) would have been so much better. think we could have broke the guiness world records for "the most concentrated mass dance ever in a school". due to the rain the campfire was held in the hall and imagine about 2000 people dancing in the small hall. was just too squeezy i can't even move much during the mass dance except for the moves that involve raising out hands up lol.

after the campfire went to KAP with senior and junior class. pretty much like a gathering of the 05, 06 and 07S65 classes. took about one hour just to get to KAP...simply unbelievable. ate and chatted outside KAP initially but got scolded by the management from Mcdonald's after a while who claimed that residents are complaining (not long after everyone has bought food from Mcdonald's). truth was S65 didn't make much noise...other classes did but never mind we went back into Mcdonald's and got seats. started playing games like passing fries with our mouths and was forced to pass on this extremely short fries from ngehwee form my junior class. the fries was so short i could even see it when i tried to get it from her and i could actually feel her breath LOL.

after that was lucky enough to catch the last bus 67 home with francis. pretty fun night!

ahhhhhhhhhh my holiday homework still not completed yet.

pictures taken yesterday!

school reopens with a bang...

2007-01-06T19:14:00.000+08:00

to signal the start of the mad rush to complete all the holiday assignments. i am left with more than 50% undone which means that i need to spend my weekend doing them. sigh.

a couple change of teachers and i am pretty happy with the change. as predicted, miss huang become our CT this year and surprisingly mr teo ming ern become my chemistry teacher. seriously speaking i am quite afraid of him having been caught sleeping in the auditorium during CT session and talking during morning assembly in the parade square a couple of times. however in the end my intution tell sme that he is still a great caring and dedicated teacher.

didn't get to see my new GP teacher yesterday because i had to attend some boring orientation programme for my NTU H3 contemporary physics course. the orientation includes some talks introducing NTU aka advertising NTU and what it has to offer for us in the future and one of the most boring orientation games in the world, amazing "walk" around the NTU campus. supposed to be amazing race but nothing in the "game" is fun, so yeah. and imagine having to carry your school bag around as you "play" the game. don't really like my H3 physics class. having 80% foreign scholars around who already know each other makes me feel very out of place and uncomfortable. to add on, some "rival" group from swiss cottage that i used to dislike when i joined the great science challenge in secondary four is in the same class. apparently the three people in the group are in pjc, njc and sajc respectively and ALL THREE OF THEM are in the same class as me. wow, the world is really small. hope they are nice and friendly people.

having the first H3 lesson on monday which means that i would miss the senior meet junior session that i have been looking forward to. ARGH.

can't wait for orientation campfire and class dinner with seniors with week.

last friday of 2006

2006-12-29T20:59:00.000+08:00

today is the last friday of 2006. makes me wanna look back at the year and do some erm gasp...reflection.

looked at my old blog and realised that THIS is my last entry written last year. in addition, i realised that i did not write any new year resolutions last year, which is probably good because i need not go through them one by one and feel really guilty for not fulfilling most of them.

very glad to get into hwa chong junior college and met this very fantastic class 06s65! needless to say, with both river valley prom king rongkang and prom queen mingming in my class how can it be not fantastic? hehe. will never forget the fun and laughter we have for the first three months and of course that hilarous campfire night performance and those occasional stay over nights at michelle's house. my senior class 05s65 are a bunch of friendly people too. never failed to answer my queries about school work and have a really nice time chatting with some of them before and after school at the class bench everyday. come to think of it, it is weird being seniors next year and i would probably kind of miss my senior class. the teachers teaching our class are great too, especially ever-caring mr pang and funny miss jacqueline yeo.

joined hwa chong taekwondo probably out of sudden interest and also i got quite bored playing flute for so long and decided to venture out to try something new! turned out to be a pretty smart choice for me. learnt quite alot from the club and met some fantastic new friends like hunky shen yang, sexy yushu, suave jonathan and a whole lot of others. of course, catching up with junquan my ex classmate in sec 1 and 2 but we kind of lost in touch in sec 3 and 4! haha.

not to forgot i was approached to act in the artemis national musical. was a very refreshing experience for me because i have not perform really huge roles on stage before except for some solo singing at my kindergarden graduation ceremony which i screwed up really badly haha. the whole process was caught on video tape but unfortunately my dad accidentally deleted all the scenes away from the video tape ):. was glad that the musical received many positive comments because i did not have any confidence at all performing on stage. moreover got to know hyper active god sis pamela through the musical and the rest of the very friendly fac com people!

this year was kind of a slacky year for me. did alot of last minute tutorials in school and last minute studying sessions in the reading room during the examination periods where i also get to know a whole lot of other great hwachong friends like wenqi (will never forget that climbing fence incident LOL), idol zhiyong, mr bean bing cheng, di shui sheng hui among others.

my class has got two good basketball team players rongkang and yeowlin and through them i also got to know one of my favourite bloggers (lol i make him sound like a professional blogger) mr nice billy and my charismatic big brother jeremy ! haha.

the new zealand and sydney trip at the end of november with my family is also probably one of the highlights. spend some real quality time with my family members and bonded through the many mishaps that happened on the trip such as the baggage and flight delays. felt really fortunate that i get to go on trips like this to widen my general knowledge about the world. thanks to my great parents who work hard to earn money to sponsor me for these trips! would not forget to repay them in the future :).

okay it suddenly hit me that this is more like a very BORING entry about all the nice people i met this year instead of a reflection of what i did this year. never mind about that, i shall set my new year resolutions for next year now.

1) have more confidence in myself
2) stand up for myself and not to be so forgiving if i know i am right (thanks to shen yang who inspired me to note this down today haha)
3) work hard and play hard
4) improve on my english standard which is really bad

okay done. i am not a very task orientated person who like to write things down and constantly remind myself i must do this or that. basically i just go along with the flow so yea just some simple general resolutions that stop at number 4 which also happen to be my lucky number.

to spice up this entry i shall upload a few outdated pictures taken during liuxin's and miss jacqueline yeo's farewell party last sunday on christmas eve here!

at choa chu kang LRT staiton on the way to liu xin's house. it is the first time in mingming's life that she is taking the LRT! woot!

a very rare picture of jinjuan presenting liu xin's farewell gift to him!

class gp rep dorea presenting miss jacqueline yeo her farewell gift.

hope they would like the gifts we spent alot of effort making! good luck to miss jacqueline yeo for her future teaching career and may liu xin have a very successful life in canada!

PWHI061 without yujun! :)

mentioned that my room is going through some minor makeover in one of my previous entry. so this is the progress...

before...

after...

look at those stripes at the right. they are scotch tape that i pasted halfway for the whole wall. in a dilemma whether i should create a "wallpaper" effect by painting this whole wall with that stripy pattern. it requires alot of effort so must consider carefully first before starting to paint it. comments?

about one and a half day to 2007! happy new year and wish everyone a very successful and happy year 2007 ahead!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

2006-12-25T11:37:00.000+08:00

christmas eve!

2006-12-24T00:36:00.000+08:00

it is 12:37 AM now the beginning of christmas eve this year! spend the whole of today (or rather yesterday) rushing farewell gifts for liu xin and miss jacqueline yeo for the farewell party that is going on later today in the afternoon. my room is still in a mess with all the scrap paper and styrofoam bits and the gifts are still not ready yet! sigh i guess it is usual for me to be doing this kind of last minute work.

the painters are coming to my house today to give my house a new look. so basically i would be having a mini room makeover on christmas eve how cool is that!

not to forget it is also dorea chin's birthday today. it is special to have your birthday falling on christmas eve isn't it?

thanks for tolerating my nonsensical screams and singings on the phone. i am sure you would have a great year ahead and continue to shine with your ever kind, patient, encouraging and caring personality! you have been a great pal!

okay short update here. back to rushing gifts...

obscene names

2006-12-22T11:09:00.000+08:00

went town yesterday with my aunt jane, uncle kelvin and my cousins yanying and yangzhi to choose their new piano and for some last minute christmas shopping. went takashimaya children's section on the third level and it was fully packed with people obviously doing their last minute christmas shopping too. yangzhi wanted to get a new lego set as his christmas present but takashimaya doesn't really sell much of lego products. so we went to a lego shop at paragon where yanying was having her sociolio correction therapy. after much deliberation we had initially decided to get this:

which is really nice! but it cost a whopping 259 bucks which my uncle thought wasn't too worth the price. so eventually we went to toys "r" us instead and got a game cd-rom instead.

was caught in a massive jam on our way to plaza singapura's yamaha. we spent the time trying to call into carrie chong's radio show with our handphones while waiting in the car but to no avail.

went to yamaha and tried out this upright standing grand piano (model: U5) which they were planning to invest in. after which we tried another baby grand piano which cost $13,900, a thousand bucks less than the upright grand piano. consulted our piano teacher and she told us that it is still more worthy to get a upright grand piano. the salesperson played a couple of pieces on that piano for us to hear and indeed it has got a very clear and rich tone texture. probably one of the best upright pianos in the market!

while we were testing out the piano yanying told my aunt she wanted to learn the rock guitar and that was when something hilarious happened.

background information: there was a period when yanying and me like to imitate the bimbotic, irritating and lame antics shown in "Mean Girls" having watched it at least thrice. most importantly, there is a very prominent character call "Regina George" in the movie, who was, in my opnion, the scripted version of paris hilton lol.

here is a short clip form the film to illustrate the lameness of this highly rated chick flick:

Mean Girls (Part 2)

okay as i was saying yanying told my aunt that she wanted to learn rock guitar next year and she replied "what rock guitar. next year PSLE already...once in a life time, don't still whole day VAGINA george here VAGINA george there." in the yamaha piano showroom. obviously we burst out laughing. LOL. i cannot believe anyone would want to name themselves "vagina". the thought of my name being "penis ng" send chills down my spine.

had a rather late dinner at manhattan fish market. ordered lobster seafood platter, seafood platter, soups, grilled fish and drinks. got rather sick of all the fried food after a while and we couldn't really finish all the food.

went home after touring around town to look at the christmas lightnings in the car despite the heavy traffic there. rather impressive, gives one an imperial glittery gold feel. don't know why, the sight just reminded me of the new epic "the curse of the golden flower".

just heard that my gp teacher miss jaqueline yeo is leaving the school next year two days ago. to think that i am really looking forward to her gp lessons next year! would definitely miss her funny antics and slacky gp lessons! nevertheless guess it is time for her to "move on" to ACSI and wish her a very successful teaching career there.

i shall resolve to do more homework today than the total amount of work i have done for the holidays so far, which is not a very difficult task to fulfill.

shall try to call carrie chong tonight to wish everyone a very merry christmas!

human reaction time error

2006-12-18T21:22:00.000+08:00

recently my family keep saying that i am 迟钝 and always take very long to reply or totally ignored them when they ask me questions or call my name. for example, my mom has been complaining how she needs to repeat my name at least thrice before i would respond. the problem is i am probably thinking about something else or something like that, i don't know that she have called me thrice already! i only heard her the last time she calls my name "yichun!!! (with a very irritated tone)". so i am very used to hearing my name "YICHUN!!!" said with much angst at an above-average volume. i think i am really blur. i threw my underwear in the dustbin at home and ate food with moss and fungus on it. i place a can of coke in the freezer and it exploded and got my parents fuming mad.

this morning went for a rather informal taekwondo training session and told shenyang and junquan about this problem. they laughed and said indeed sometimes i totally "dao" them when they talked to me or took a long time to react to what they were saying. sigh.

so if you talk to me next time and i don't reply please forgive me it isn't deliberate. i think my parents are right; i am probably slightly 迟钝.

jonathan and yushu told me to bring along my camera for taekwondo today. so i brought and we just took alot of random pictures and sort of photo-whored lol.

they asked me to raise my finger to form the word "PIMP". don't know what it is for though haha.

tall...

not. and got shot (short).

yushu weirdly positioned lol.

junquan's hairy legs! LOL.

haha i just called into 987 FM AGAIN! oh my cannot believe i am so lucky. have been calling in so many times lol. today was "sing-for-your-request-monday" in which we are supposed to sing part of the song we wanted to dedicate. initially i wanted to sing "irreplaceable" by beyonce but she played the song earlier so i could not request for that song and have to settle for "welcome to the black parade" AGAIN lol. i sang the first part super horribly and qingsheng immediately sms-ed me to tell me that he was laughing his ass off when he heard it.

in conclusion, i hope i would be less 迟钝 in the future.

amazing!

2006-12-16T21:11:00.000+08:00

just caught the latest episode of The Amazing Race Asia on youtube in which the singapore team sharon and melody got eliminated. quite sad actually especially after melody actually overcame her fear to take the bungee jump. hats off to her! i would NEVER try bungee jumping...the thought itself is scary enough. coincidentally the teams went to south island, new zealand from i have just gone for a holiday. took a look from the bungge jumping platform and it was so high and scary enough, not to mention actually jumping from it. speaking of new zealand south island i decided to showoff a few pictures of the beautiful place here. it would be a pity not to "broadcast" those pictures since i have already uploaded them onto the internet ;).

a gorgeous rapid along the highway (alot of my pictures were taken while i was on the bus...so you can actually understand why i took 1500 pictures because almost everywhere is beautiful and worth capturing! haha)

a pretty scenic spot with snow-capped mountains in the foreground. on my way to milford sound at a "photo-stop".

a river by the mountains. the water is save for drinking and we all tried the cool clean natural spring water! haha.

that's queenstown, a pretty populated town nested beside lake wakatipu. wish singapore island is that beautiful too!

a historic church, church of the good old shepherd.

the same place. didn't have my luggage with me so i am wearing the jacket and looking like a tutu kueh since it was pretty breezy and cold there.

along the highway.

gorgeous mirror lake!

fox glacier!

cathedral square, christchurch.

gigantic waterfall at milford sound

wild seals sun-bathing on a rock at milford sound.

on the cruise to discover the wonders of milford sound.

along the highway, waitaki district.

ok done with the pictures spamming...enjoy the holidays while we can! :)

happy birthday to my computer!

2006-12-15T22:59:00.000+08:00

ok lame title but then my computer is seriously freaking me out! i just wrote this entry about how lousy my computer is and this morning while i had almost completed typing this entry my computer just hang again. and just now my computer hanged three times for the short half an hour that i have used it. oh no i better save this entry after i have type every paragraph which is very laborious...but what to do!!! my computer is dangerously unstable and i used it with a constant fear of it hanging. the moment it hangs it is like a thunder has struck my computer everything froze and then gone forever. i really need a new computer!

yesterday i called through 987 FM again for the second time this week on Say It With Music and forgot to wish carrie chong happy birthday since it is her birthday today. was planning to try my luck to call in during her show now but unfortunately she wasn't hosting the show today. she has probably gone to celebrate her 30th birthday!

haha talking about carrie chong it seems like just yesterday when i was in primary school and i tuned in to her every day when i came back from school during lunch time. back then she was hosting this afternoon lunch show on 987 FM. after which i would tune into jamie yeo's Say It With Music (it used to be her show but she left the radio station which is quite saddening ):). after listening to carrie and requesting songs on her show for so long, she has sorta become my "invisible friend" lol. so yea gonna wish a celebrity happy birthday for the first time on my blog.

okay my computer just hanged another TWO TIMES while i tried to upload this carrie chong picture. luckily i have saved a draft just after i typed the "happy birthday carrie chong!".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARRIE CHONG!

yesterday was chuan han's birthday but then think she should be having lots of fun now in taiwan under the taiwan immersion programme. don't think she would see this but nevertheless...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUAN HAN!

haha know her since primary 5 (wow almost as long as i have been tuning in to carrie chong lol) and think she is a really helpful and good friend! thanks for all the encouragement during the o levels and prelims period! may we have a stress-free year ahead in hwahcong next year (though highly unlikely haha) !

9 days to christmas (in 10 more minutes it would be 8 days) and i have finally started on like 2% of my holiday homework! sighhhh i foresee mugging days ahead during this festive season thanks to my procrastinations as usual lol. it is always holiday SEASON homework for me lol. and also due to my procrastinations i have not finished doing my christmas gifts for my friends yet...the gifts are cool but they seriously need alot of hardwork to make yeah that's why the procrastinations.

this the season to be jolly...fahlalalalalalalala...

needs or wants?

2006-12-12T12:57:00.000+08:00

okay great my computer just hanged halfway while i was typing this entry about how terrible my computer is, perhaps to give me another reason to re-type this entry with more evidence of the inefficiency of this computer.

first of all, sorry but i decided not to update on the new zealand trip anymore since i have uploaded the pictures and the pictures themselves would speak for the trip if you are interested. (actually to be frank i am too lazy to tranfer the pictures from photobucket to blogger one by one and painstakingly copying and pasting the numerous URLs and rearraging the photographs by dragging down on the blogger posting interface which is seriously a very laborious job plus the fact that trip is already quite outdated. photobucket used to have this function whereby one can blog numerious photographs from their site at one go without the need to copy and paste the URLs to the blogger posting interface but now they seemed to have scrape away with this function or is it that i am not familar with the new photobucket...anyone please advise?)

currently i have two items on my mind that i really wish that i have in possession:

1) a new computer
okay although i have got three computers at home now the so-called newest and most efficient computer is always occupied by my dad for games (sigh), the second newest computer is always used by my sister and i have to settle for this really old and cranky computer which takes approximately five minutes to start up and may hang at any moment at countless occasions (including just now). quite sick of having to use this computer with this constant impending fear of it hanging while blogging, chatting, surfing and simply just typing a project report on microsoft word. that is also the reason why you always see me popping in and out of msn at the bottom right hand side of your monitor like an irritant. according to this sticker pasted on this HP Pavilion 8612 CPU that i am using now, it says there that it has got "64MB 100 MHz SDRAM". don't really know what that means because i am not quite a techwhiz but i think it simply means that this computer is in a really bad status. the monitor is so bad it makes the pictures taken from our 7.0 megapixels camera look distorted and foggy. plus i have a feeling it may just crash any moment and i may lose all my precious files that i have no choice but to save in this computer (since i have to use this computer everytime, duh). so i think i really need a new computer.

2) a comfortable sofa / bean-bag
i like to study or read sitting on the sofa. however, my mom recently brought in this sofa from my aunt's old house and discarded away the old sofa that has got scratches and tears on it. this sofa is probably the most uncomfortable place to sit on. while sitting on the sofa, the curvature ot the sofa would force one to lean forward the upper part of the body (the area around the shoulders and neck) which is really uncomfortable and gives me the "vomitting" sensation everytime i sat on it. so i avoided sitting on it and hope that we would have a more comfortable new sofa or just a comfortable sofa chair in my room where i could sit to study or read...or simply a bean-bag which would also be like a thousand times more comfortable than the sofa in the living room now.

i didn't dare to tell my parents about these request, if not they would go into this hysterical WE-NEED-TO-SAVE-MONEY frenzy. some of my aunties said i am a squanderer but i don' think so. how can i be one when i request to go to foodcourts everytime i go out with my friends when they intended to visit some more expensive restaurants and complain everytime when they go to swensens, NYDC etc. i was even labelled as STINGY by my friends not long ago. i understand the need to save money but i don't think it is fair that they said i spent money mindlessly. i know earning money is a difficult task and that i am from an average family but i don't think that i am a squander. or am i?

sigh i think these items would only appear in my dreams...

christmas is coming soon which means the school is starting in no time and i have not really start on any school work at all and my english is still as bad.

New Zealand Trip (Part 1)

2006-12-07T09:38:00.000+08:00

WARNING: LONG ENTRY AHEAD. GRAB YOUR FAVOURITE SANDWICH AND A CUP OF TEA WHILE YOU MARVEL AT THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES. :)

i supposed the trip to new zealand can only be retold via pictures to showcase the beauty of one of the most unpolluted countries in the world. so yeah this post would be pretty much like aphotolog. by the way sorry for the delay in post, because i took about 1500 pictures and have had a really difficult time just to choose and upload these pictures haha.

went on this vacation with my mom, sister, cousins (yanying, yanying's younger brother yangzhi and shunxiang), aunt jane and uncle kelvin plus my grandparents. so we pretty much booked a bus and our driver-cum-tour-guide brought us around new zealand on the bus throughout the trip.

Day 1 / 2

the flight to new zealand wasn't a peaceful one at all. was supposed to fly to sydney and wait for 3 hours before taking another connect flight to new zealand.

taking off from singapore to sydney during sunset...

due to bad weather, our flight made a detour to melbourne instead first and we had to wait for two hours before re-boarding the flight to sydney.

so i slept at melbourne airport and my sister caught me rubbing my blocked nose...

flew to sydney and was told that our supposed connected flight have already flown off and we would need to wait for about another 6 hours before the next flight to christchurch, new zealand.

so what did we do? of course we ate our lunch at sydney airport...before sleeping again.

got so bored sleeping i went to the children's playground there with my cousins. pretty much like those children adventure centres that i used to go to and i was banned there because i was taller than their restricted height but i went in anyway since there was no one at the playground haha. forgot to bring a book along with me on my hand-held baggage to kill time! my cousin was like laughing away...pretty funny yea college one still climbing these kind of things. come to think of it it was quite a same but i guessed boredom induces people to do the craziest things :P.

got so bored i asked my cousins to do crazy faces while i photographed them with my camera haha.

after a hair-rising journey via air new zealand airplane (the plane met with a blizzard and it was pretty much like a scary roller coaster ride on the way to christchurch and i got pretty scared on board), we finally arrived at christchurch at an ungodly hour of 12 midnight only to find that our luggage didn't come together with the plane...

waited for another 2 hours while my aunt and uncle went to enquire about our lost luggage.

the luggage arrived only three days later and because of this i wore the same clothes for three days and survived on the very pathetic river valley concert band jacket that i brought along onto the plane.

checked into our first accommodation Holiday Inn at 1am!

to be continued...

in the mean time, i have uploaded some pictures of the trip HERE (just in case i become too lazy to continue blogging about the trip) ! :)

back!

2006-12-06T09:09:00.000+08:00

YEAY!

savely back from new zealand and sydney yesterday night. it was one hell of a trip. experienced flight delays, living without my luggage for three days, snowing, hailstones, customs interrogation, saw lots of sheeps and cows at one go which is more than the population of singapore, really really strong winds at milford sound...and lots more.

details when i upload the pictures! stay tuned. :)

*editted*

just got reminded that i lost my aunt's red jacket by leaving it on the airplane. losing things ain't fun, especially when i tried to be extra careful to make sure that i do not leave things behind but still not careful enough and had to leave a red jacket at the end of the trip. my mom just called the airlines to check if they can retrieve the jacket. think it is highly unlikely but i am keeping my fingers crossed. losing things sucks, don't know why i keep losing things...like i lost my files 5 times last year just to illustrate the point and ended up reprinted worksheets and notes 5 times. okay hope i would not lose anything anymore next year.

off to new zealand!

2006-11-28T00:42:00.000+08:00

going to new zealand for a short holiday tomorrow and will be back in about 8 days time! anyone wants anything there? :P haha.

heard alot about its beautiful sceneries and could not wait to witness them myself :)!

in the mean time if you are really bored you can browse through my old blog which is rather entertaining. just read some of them (probably because i was also bored haha) and realised that it contains quite a number of excitingly stupid and crazy entries lol.

got to go and sleep now. good night and see ya!

there's gotta be more to life...

2006-11-26T12:04:00.000+08:00

than playing maplestory.

seems like alot of my family members have fell victim to this game, including my father, which frustrates me the most. just to give some examples to illustrate the situation:

my cousin, shunxiang, kept giving hints that he wanted to go home when we went to watch yanying's musical on thursday. reason? he wanted to play maplestory from 2pm to 4pm everyday because he has got some cash card that would enable him to gain double experience points if he plays during that period of time everyday. okay even his blogs have got pictures of maplestory posted up.

another cousin, yangzhi, looked sickly when his mother brought him out for shopping and bought alot of clothes for him. reason? he wanted to stay at home to play maplestory and looked sad when he actually got new clothes.

now my father. everyday i came home or when i wake up and if my father is at home...this is what i see on the computer screen:

or images similar to that. he even bothered to read guides on the internet and wrote down alot of notes on this game (unfortunately on the calender so that calender is kinda vandalised?!) and EVEN printed on whole stack of information regarding the monsters in maplestory. never see him so enthusiatic when i asked him to help me photocopy or print my notes or stuffs, or on other issues such as researching on the best digital camera to buy or even spending the time researching on the best stocks to buy (could earn some money better than wasting time) since i know he buys shares.

even if he spends the same amount of time maintaining and writing a blog...i bet he could be a famous blogger now.

or help my mother with the housework...maybe he could be gain some inspiration from doing the housework and come up with something creative or even set up a cleaning company.

or reading newspaper! he could have gained so much knowledge and share with us some of them.

or taking up a part-time job?! since he has said before that his job is boring and there is nothing much for him to do in his office lol. then he could have earned some extra money and gain REAL EXPERIENCES instead of gaining useless, worthless EXPERIENCE POINTS in the game.

or spent the time exercising. bet he could be a marathon runner by now and do singapore proud lol.

or pick up a musical instrument such as the guitar so that he could have entertained us and also teach me how to play it after learning. with the amount of time spent he could have already been an intermediate guitar player.

or reading some books and gaining more wisdom. bet he could even be some local writer by now judging by the time spent on the game.

i guessed some gaming to unwind is okay...but i think they are all truly addicted though they don't want to admit that they are.

but for now, guess that unless some cure for maple addiction is invented, all these would only be a fantasy.

even as i am typing this entry, the same old maplestory gaming interface is staring at me from the monitor beside me AGAIN. sighhhh.

the music of the night

2006-11-24T00:41:00.000+08:00

just came back from my cousin's primary school musical at university cultural center. the musical was really great for a primary school production...the actors and actresses could act better than most of us and all their songs are original and well-written! it was kind of touching seeing how the production team and the teachers from their school writing the script from scratch and having so much patience to train the little students to perfect their lines.

the phantom of the opera is returning to singapore next year on 23rd march and i hope to get to watch it on my birthday (4th april) next year! :) think i should start saving money now for the musical haha. oh i realised this is the first time i actually have a certain birthday wish...hope itcan be realised :).

going to school tomorrow morning...guess i gonna turn in soon. took quite a number of pictures this week of the 4A chalet, trip to vivocity and of course my cousin's musical...shall post them up next time if i have the time!

a video of my all-time favourite song "Music of the Night" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. time and again i would have got some favourite songs that i hear on 987 FM but NOTHING beats this song. first heard this beautiful piece when i was in primary school and until now i still have not got sick of the song. i remember a certain hwachong teacher (recognise him but don't know his name) sang it during this year's hwachong idol and it was so "emotionally provoking" i could feel goosebumps...enjoy the power of the music of the night.

Sarah Brightman & Michael Crawford - The Music of the Night

ahhh. what a wonderful way to end the night. good night! :)

random post

2006-11-19T11:07:00.000+08:00

yesterday i had my mock piano examination. my piano teacher invited this old-looking man to be the examiner. so i was super nervous as usual because playing piano has ALWAYS not been my forte no matter how long i spend practising. so i kind of scraped through the two pieces that i was supposed to play and screwed up the scales portion.

"D major appeggio"

i don't know what was on my mind at that time and i blurly played D minor appeggio.

after which that man purposely instructed

"D minor appeggio"

okay so i realised i played the SAME THING again twice. i instinctly murmured "oh shit" while playing D minor appeggio, probably because i was influenced by Fergie's London Bridge which i have heard so many times and has got "oh shit...oh shit..." at the beginning of the song.

never mind that, the old man started laughing...possibly at how foolish i was.

so our trip to new zealand has been finally confirmed by CTC tour agency. long story there because that tour agency screwed up our previous tour plans and we have to go through so much hassle just to plan this trip. initially was going to both north and south island, considered going to USA but now we had to make do with only south island. nevertheless now that it is confirmed i am looking forward to the trip. luckily not going to south africa as suggested by the tour agency probably because no one wants to go and they want us to fill up the spaces for them LOL. departing on 28 November and coming back on 5 December. we get to have a city tour of sydney too during the flight transit...so yay!

i got into ntu h3 physics course! hope that i can cope and it wouldn't be too stressful for me next year...and they allow one to drop if one really cannot cope.

h3 classmates next year! don't know anyone of them except for ziye who is also from my class. :(

just read jonathan's blog and really wondered what is it like to have an older brother? my ideal sibling has always been a nice and cool older brother who'll take care of me and one whom i can share my secrets with. haha.

some old pictures!

found these pictures while looking through my computer folders just now...sort of bring back some fond memories :)

River Valley Concert Band flute section at band fiesta in botanic gardens almost three years ago! spent a major part of my rv life with these mad and fun flautists!

with miss chan our strict but friendly (sounds contradictory but it is true! :)) conductor! just look at paula (who is in hwachong now so we are still school mates! haha) at the right hand side of the picture posing owing to her modelling instincts again LOL.

4A's mysteriously cool notice board which was later changed into this when we shifted to the holding school in commonwealth...

nice and colourful! never fails to cheer me up! that is qiuju's bag on the table by the way.

the arrive-in-school-before-7am-to-pia-homework gang aka the early birds haha.

RV 4A'05 guys...haha 6 of us are in hwachong now, 3 in NJ, 2 in RJ, 1 in VJ and 1 in new zealand.

a very random picture.

classmates for four years in rv. gwendolyn is also in hwachong now...so that makes us schoolmates for 6 years haha.

tablemate who is the really ultra smart with super high IQ MR ANG WEE KIAT (who is also in hwachong now) and me doing the "gasp" action that i sometimes did unknowingly when i got back test papers back in RV LOL. still remember he studied like 5 mins before some particular physics test and got much higher than me who studied the day before...life is never fair!!! haha

before chemistry prelim examination...cannot remember WHY ON EARTH WAS I TAKING PICTURES BEFORE CHEMISTRY PRELIM EXAM -.- lol. chuanhan (who is in hwachong now) discussing some chemistry questions with peckyan and qiuju (who is also in hwachong now) was busily mugging away the first thing she came into the classroom EVEN BEFORE PUTTING DOWN HER BAG LOL.

RV4A'05...having class chalet tomorrow...hope it would be fun haha.

on a totally irrelevant note, really like jojo's new single "too little too late". listened to it on windows media player for the entire night yesterday on repeat mode for about 20 over times haha. her voice sounds really mature for a 16-year-old (or is it 15 i am not really sure). is it me but i thought she looks abit like lindsay lohan haha.

realised that this has unintentionally become a really long post...haha!

happy birthday angie!

2006-11-15T18:09:00.000+08:00

today is angie's birthday...so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGIE!

a super random photo that we took together when she dropped by hwachong before her dance class with kimmin. haha i looked like i have got vampire fangs with those rubber bands tying the braces together.

went to her house (which is relatively near mine) just now. everything has not changed since i last went a year ago except i got lost again and went to the wrong terrance house lol.

still remember those secondary school days when me, her and aaron (another rv friend who lives near angie along the same street) would go to limbang park occasionally for some random balls games and slacking-cum-gossip sessions followed by a visit to angie's house to play with her dog, woofie. although they are just simple outings to the park, i guessed such outings could not possibly happen now due to our own busy schedules plus the fact that all three of us are in different schools now. aaron is in nj, angie is in rj and i am in hc.

and of course thanks angie for tolerating my phone calls during the O levels period to discuss about how stress we were! LOL.

oh yeah, there is this entry that i wrote about how her dog freaked me out when i first went to her house but i could not seem to find it after searching through my old blog to put the link here. basically i was running and screaming until her dog chased me to a dead end. after that her dog ran around me and angie said it only wanted to play with me haha.

took a photo with her dog just now after learning how to befriend her dog. her dog looks kind of handsome, don't you agree?

quick post

2006-11-14T01:51:00.002+08:00

it is almost 2am now and i could not believe that i am still awake!

hey just curious to find out with anyone reading this post whether you guys brush your teeth before breakfast or after breakfast? i usually do so after breakfast and my cousin thought it was very weird for me to do so. is it really weird? i thought everyone does that initially.

i just saw the cartoon somewhere online and i thought it struck a chord with my own experiences and the interesting resemblance with a picture i just took with big bro during the artemis fac outing. miss jacqueline yeo told me she thought i have grown taller but i don't think so. and i still cannot "blend" into conversations and don't really know what to talk except asking questions or things that does not seem to interest anyone.

oh no! i realised that even if i only sleep 7 hours it would be 9am tomorrow morning and i would be late for taekwondo!!! okay better go sleep NOW. night!

a very 65 week!

2006-11-11T23:54:00.000+08:00

most of this week have been spent with my classmate. it has been quite a fun, tiring and enjoyable week.

had our class chalet from monday to wednesday.

the chalet was quite big with two rooms and i kept sleeping there. most importantly our class chalet is relatively CHEAP thanks to yuani's magnificant bargaining and planning skills. each of us only needed to pay 20 bucks for accommodation, bbq, a chocolate fondue plus a steamboat. i think that is quite a good deal! in addition, thanks to yuani's fabulous house-keeping skills again, we managed to prepare all the food in time and also keep the chalet reasonably clean.

all in all, it was quite a successful and fun chalet for our class to get together!

we invited quite a few teachers for the bbq and only mr ong came over to visit us. it was quite unexpected! i realised mr ong is actually quite a nice and friendly guy. okay, i should try to like his physics lessons in the future.

those present at the chalet with mr ong (who was wearing a funky t-shirt) and his wife!

on thursday, i had my pw oral presentation which marks the end of the laborious pw journey.

group HI061 without jinjuan! that picture was taken probably 6 months ago while we were conducting some survey along orchard road. by the way think our group members rock and we all did a pretty good job for our op and written report as we had all put in our best effort. thanks to liu xin, jinjuan, mingming and yujun for tolerating my nonsense during pw meetings and also my ridiculous formatting expectations!

3035 or 1270 for 4D tomorrow anyone?

after that went out with a couple of my classmates to town for a mini post-pw celebration. went into a neoprint machine and took "pirated" neoprints because i think the "real" neoprints are totally costly and not worth the money.

we went into some random neoprint machine and took pictures with our handphones with the backgrounds provided! i think it looks pretty good, maybe better than those "real" neoprints.

man was the shopkeeper puzzled and mad at us when we came out of the neoprint machines and not "neoprinting" HAHA. i think these "pirated" neoprints are pretty cool. should take more in the future haha.

after that we went to catch STEP UP which is a fantastic teen dance flick. the dances in the movie are great, the lead actress (jenna dewan) is gorgeous and the storyline is simple but meaningful!

on friday went for our maths teacher miss huang's church wedding at some church near upper bukit timah road.

and guess what our class met at novena mrt and we WENT TO THE WRONG CHURCH!!! come to think of it it was rather hilarious because we entered the church and was quite puzzled when we found out that there wasn't any wedding ceremony going on there.

in the end we called miss huang only to realise we were at the wrong church and the correct church should be "church of the holy spirit".

so we took cabs and rushed down to the CORRECT church just in time for the ceremony. just imagine the scene of three taxis coming together and stopping outside the church with us running to the chapel.

the whole chapel was filled with students from hwachong and also sji because miss huang's husband is a teacher in that school. saw quite a number of familar faces there.

after that we went down to plaza singapura for some random window shopping.

a rather eerie picture that i took while waiting for the train to go home with jupiter and junjie.

think i gonna sleep now. gdnite!

my family of bloggers scholars?

2006-11-05T21:01:00.000+08:00

it suddenly occurred to me that all my cousins are freaking smart and talented! i feel inferior when i compare myself to them! i realised that alot of my family members have got their own blogs too. so i decided to dedicate one entry to introduce all of them to you (if you are ever interested that is) since i am so bored now.

on the left is shunxiang, secondary one this year. he is in hci (high school section) iSpark consortium. scored A1 for ALL his subjects this year and he is gifted. WOW.

on the right is yanying, the drama-queen-girl-and-mean-girl-wannabe LOL. primary 5 this year and scored 90 plus for all her subjects. in addition she learns ballet, piano and guitar and is the lead dancer for her school's musical this year. WOW. i want to learn guitar from her.

on the right is yangzhi, primary two this year. topped his class this year and have tons of girlfriends in school LOL. WOW.

on the right is bryan, 4 years old this year and knows how to pose when taking pictures. he is really smart and cute!!! check out his mom's blog to know why. by the way his mother (my aunt) is pretty good with photoshop too! WOW.

that's yiyang, J2 this year in JJC, really fantastic pianist and my closest cousin since young who loves tickling me and whacking me till i scream LOL. i know he has got a blog too but i don't know his blog address.

opps sorry i have to abruptly end this post...because i suddenly remember i have got PW to do and class chalet matters to discuss. shall continue next time if i feel like continuing! (:

under the iron sea

2006-11-02T14:15:00.000+08:00

Who is the man I see
Where I'm supposed to be?
I lost my heart, I buried it too deep
Under the iron sea

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful
Mirror, mirror on the wall

Lines ever more unclear
Not sure I'm even here
The more I look the more I think that I'm
Starting to disappear

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong
So put me where I belong

I don't where I am
And I don't really care
I look myself in eye
There's no-one there
I fall upon the earth
I call upon the air
But all I get is the same old vacant stare

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong
So put me where I belong

quite a meaningful song yeah?

these few days have been thinking alot about my actions and behaviour. a period of self reflection or self discovery i suppose...haha :)

however, i could not figure out what is the problem with me. the only thing is probably i always have very little confidence in myself

so other than that...i would just be myself i guess! :)

people change but how can i change accordingly?

shall end this post with a very old photograph of my aunt's wedding which i saw on her blog. that was me about ten years ago i think. haha.

still remembered vividly that shortly after i did an indiscriminate act by digging my nose and the whole process was caught on tape by the camera man who was filming a video record of the entire wedding day. LOL.

hey hope all my friends who are plagued with problems would get over them soon...it is the holidays afterall! ;)

explosives

2006-11-01T00:51:00.000+08:00

i tossed and turned in bed but could not fall asleep so i decided to come online to drop a short post.

just now before i was about to lie down on my bed i heard these sudden loud "BOOM" exploding sounds below my block.

so i sat up on my bed and looked out of the window. saw a group of guys playing with explosive at this late hour. it was quite a cool sight actually, so i sat beside the window on my bed watching the mini fireworks "performance". soon it ended and the group of guys ran off, possibly to avoid being caught by the police. the night became peaceful and tranquil all of a sudden again.

my mind is like the explosives exploding with questions but i could not and should not ask them. "ask less, learn more."

it is very confusing...how can i learn without asking?

okay i shall try to get back to sleep again...with all the questions in my head.

a bright hazy morning?

2006-10-30T09:12:00.000+08:00

woke up this morning and found the sky bright but hazy. is the haze back again?

oh the holidays have began for us. and i have no holiday plans at all! probably rotting at home every single day. or spending time researching on how to make nice christmas gifts. LOL.

my cousin is at my place now. he is addicted to maplestory. the way he plays that game reminds me of one at work plus overtime. he woke up earlier than me this morning just to "train" this virtual character and to "level up".

sometimes i feel very confused. when i am with a group of friends, many of a times they would be commenting on how "hot" some girls are. i didn't know what to say so i kept quiet. then many of friends use vulgarities. not that i didn't support it, i am not very used to using them.

this happens on quite a few occasions. i was with a group of friends.

"hey look she is hot"
"oh f***"
"f*** get lost!"
"f***ing nice"
"f***ing retard!"
"oh what the f***?"
"shut the f*** up"

almost everyone use "f***" for anything, anytime, anywhere. i know how to say that but it just sounded unatural. feel abit left out at times because i could not "blend" into those conversations.

yeah. ok for the first time in my blogging experience... erm...erm...fuck?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

oh no what am i going to do today...

987

2006-10-24T09:07:00.000+08:00

yay! i am going to blog about what happened yesterday night.

there is this contest going on on 987 FM for SingTel users whereby you are supposed to dedicate any of the top 10 songs on SingTel's musicVibes via sms.

so i tried to dedicate high school musical's "breaking free" to shen yang bro in a random attempt to win something because i was really bored. just wanted to win something because i don't really need so much sms-es anyway. haha.

in the end guessed what, carrie chong from say it with music (SIWM) called me to tell me that i was gonna win the 987 free sms-es!

lol hope not many people who know me heard me on radio yesterday besides michelle, because i sounded really excited and stupid LOL.

so now how am i going about to use the 987 free sms-es? =P haha.